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To use or not to use. Facial Action Coding System is a way for computers to read facial expressions of students. Some students may think that it would be awful for this because they may not want them to know how they are feeling, but others may think its great. In some classroom computers you could put these Facial Action Coding Systems and it could potnetialy help students but changing up a lesson if it is confusng or irritateing you. Others though may think that the system would be of no help and think that students may still struggle.
Therefor if the system was added to computers it could help students learn better by changing lessons if it is confusing. The computer could regonize if you are having a hard time and then the computer could change the lesson up by making it easier to understnad. Also the computer could regonize if you are bored or not and if it sinced boredom it could change the lesson by making it more exciting to learn. The computers with Facial Action Coding Systems may be of use to students and teachers because it may help teacher to know what they need to help students with, but also it could help the studetns by making the lessons they do easier and funner to learn and understand. Last the Facial Action Coding System may be useful in all classroom settings because it could be of some use to help students get better grades overall.
In addition to that it could help students that struggle to stay focused with certain things. It could help the students by making lessons that are more eye fetching making them try and stay focused. Also the computer could change the lesson by giving them something interesting to learn about instead of just giving them a lesson that may be causing them to not stay focused. Although the FACS may not always be able to please everyone it can try to do its best at providing the best lessons to each indiviual student.
The FACS may be able to provide the best type of lesson to the student that is sitting at the computer. The FACS may be the thing that could change everything. It could help students understand and pass lessons that they may have been previosuly struggleing with. It could give students the second chance they need bacause maybe they have to repeat something because they didn't pass, but if the FACS change the lesson t obe modified to there personal lesson that it could change the way they learn by helping them pass. All together th FACS would be a good choice to put into computers that are in a classroom.
FACS would be amazing for studetns that struggle with a lot of different things. They could work at their own pace so that they could understand better and so that maybe the FACS could change the lesson to make it understandable and easy to learn. It could help students pass there lessons and exams by helping them learn the material better. Also FACS could be the deciding factor between wether you pass or not because you could just not understand the material and fail or with FACS you could get lessons changed that you don't understand and pass. In conclusion FACS would be great to put into computers that are in a classroom setting. | 4 |
Theres many advantages for car usage, but limiting car usage is better! When they enforced a driving ban in Paris, almost 4,000 drivers got fined for driving instead of following the ban. There plans are to make suburbs more officent than regualar driving. As gas emerges there are less americans buying cars, driving, or even getting licenses! Some people see it as not driving, they dont meet new people or be able to visit friends a easily. With all these changes people who stopped car commuuting as a result if the recession may find less a reason to continue the habit. Also New York has a new bick sharing program, its skyrocketing bridge and tunnel tolls which reflect those new priorities... As do so to a prolifecation of car-sharing programs across the nation. Theres been a large drop in the percentage of 16-38 year olds getting there license. There interested but its not a priority, they have found different types of transportation such as; car pooling with a friend, walking, or taking public transprotation.. therefore, they dont have to use there expences of the outrages prices for gas. Researchers found driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001...2009! With out-rages prices for gas not many people will be driving that turns back to the topic, with gas prices, friends, public transportation..who needs a car.. thats limiting car usage.. as simple as that!! | 0 |
Dear Mr. Florida State Senator,
My name is PROPER_NAME from SCHOOL_NAME in LOCATION_NAME, and I am writing to you addressing a matter that I have witnessed being discussed, come every four years presidential election time: the Electoral College. I am in favor of abolishing the Electoral College and changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. The method of electing our president should be changed to election by popular vote because the Electoral College is unfair, problematic, and does not represent the will of our citizens accurately.
First of all, the Electoral College is unfair. Because many states are "set" Republican or Democrat, it seems like only the votes in "swing states" seem to matter. According to
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong ,"During the 2000 campaign, seveteen states didn't see the candidates at all...and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad."So, it seems that, in this system of election, only the swing states matter in voting. Though the focused campaigning is necessary in the process of the Electoral College, it would not be necessary if the voting system was by popular vote. This is unfair because it puts potential voters in the dark about what's going on. Also, Democrats in "Republican" states or vice versa cannot hope for them to help their preferred presidential candidate, as mentioned in
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President .
Secondly, the Electoral College is problematic. There is much uncertainty with the Electoral College. As
What Is the Electoral College states, we vote for electors to vote for the President and Vice President. According to
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong , "[The electors]can be anyone not holding public office...sometimes the presidential candidates themselves." The electors may not vote for who the people wanted. An example of this would be in the presidential election of 1960. Also according to
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong , "...segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors."(paragraph 11) If they had succeded, it would have meant a longer period of intense segregation and racism, which we are still fighting to this day. Another reason that the Electoral College is problematic is in a case of a tie in the electoral vote. Then, more steps are required to figure out who's president.
Lastly, the Electoral College does not represent the citizens of the United States accurately. Many reasons support this claim. I think political parties are similar to "cliques" in school. People in cliques act in a certain way, dress in a certain way, only think that how they do things is right, etc. Political parties are similar. If you pick a political party to identify as, you're either "pro-life" or "pro-choice". You're either for something or against something. There's not really an in-between. In
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President , author Richard A. Posner says that "Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election..."(paragraph 23). Presidential candidates that don't identify with a certain party don't have much of a chance to win at all, even if they might turn out to be what's best for our country. I don't think there should be a vote for "political preference", but that's another arguement. Voters should vote for who they want to represent their country with flexible decisions, not a set cookie-cutter description, like a clique in school.
In conclusion, I believe we should abolish the Electoral College and put in place a new system of voting. The process of voting should be changed to the poplular vote because the Electoral College is unfair, uncertainly problematic, and an inaccurate form of representation. We all want what's best for the country, right? So, this is how I think we should make our country better. My voice may not be much, but it only takes one to start a movement. Please consider my voice, and it could be a step to making our country the best it can be.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 4 |
You should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because its an exilent way to show service for the ones who need it. Not only that but it allows you to explore the world and it magnificant sight it contains all around it. This could end up being an adventure into of your life that you will never forget about. And also you olny live once in this world so you might want to see all around it instead of living your entire life stuck into the same area that you live in. So become a fantastic service to our world show every person what you do and of how amazing this program realy is. Also shure you will be aboard on ship for very long periods of time but you can also have fun with others durring on board. You can play sport game in the ships like volleyball,baseball,table-tennis tournaments , and boxing as well. You can also do fencing,reading,and whittling for of these things can realy hep the time pass by in a fun and active way. But obviosaly you still have to help out in work durring this period. In this job its also into about helping animals that can also be very exiting to do. You also have to feed them as well though. So now do you think your ready to make a change into of your life one that includes adventure in it? | 1 |
Keeping the Electoral College is not smart for the united states voting system. First, many citizens all over the country don't agree with the voting system. Second, the Electoral College may be swayed by bias. Third, citizens do not really have control over their vote. The Electoral College system should be changed.
Many American citizens do not agree with the voting system. Citizens have grievances about the system being unfair and unreasonable. The Office of the Federal Register states, "It's official: The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality" (source 1). If American citizens are persistant with the issue, and continue to argue, then why is the government keeping the system? Why doesn't the government come up with a more rational voting system?
The Electoral College's vote may be swayed by bias. How can we trust total strangers with our vote? Bradford Plumer states, "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner take all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in the states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the 'swing' states (source 2). Voters do not get the full effect of voting because they are voting for other "qualified" people to vote for them. How is that possibly effective?
Citizens do not have control over their vote. Once citizens vote their vote is out of their hands. The Electoral College chooses the president for them and there is nothing citizens can do about it. Bradford Plumer states, "Your states certificates of Ascertainments are sent to the congress and the national archives as part of the official records of the presidential election" (source 2). The government has full control over how the election goes, not the citizens who voted.
The entire Electoral College system is completely irrational. The government needs to come up with a new way to vote for future presidents that is more fair. If we find a solution to this problem the government will not only gain favor of the American citizens, but also keep the balance that is established by the constitution. The American citizens will have control over their vote. The Electoral College should be abolished. | 3 |
Have you ever gone to school feeling sad, depressed, anxious, gloomy, alone and no one asks you about it?, have you ever just wanted someone to understand that your feeling a certain way, do you think maybe things would be different if someone could detect what was going on. Now there is way of making this happen, its called "Facial Action Coding System" it anables computers to identify human emotions just by taking a glance.
The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face and all 44 major muscles move like real human muscles. They create an action unit then they clasify each movement and muscle used to describe what emotion is being transmitted. Could you imagine having a computer be you're friend, I could. I think this system would improve not only the learning cuality but it would improve students to get help if they ever need it, teenage years are hard sometimes and adding school stress to them can be harsh, this computer would detect if any student ever had a problem with their mental health and we could solve those silent problems before they get out of hand.
Acoording to the article "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" these features could help speed up the learning process and give every student exactly what they need to get all of their learning done.
This technology could adjust to everyones needs and we could become better everyday, the future depends on the little details we need to fix, I think complementing this system would be a great way to start making a change.
My argument may or or may not influence your point of view on this new technology, but after everything we all go for the pusuit of happiness. | 2 |
In my opinion, the Facial Action Coding System is only telling what the faces are expressing not how the person is feeling. A person can be making one face but, can be feeling different. This technology couldn't be valuable to students in a classroom. The author states that Dr. Huang predicts, " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." and then goes on to talk about how the computer would modify the lessons for the student. The computer could suggest the student is feeling one emotion but the student could really be feeling another. A student could be mad and irritated but the computer could suggest it is confused by the facial expressions the student is showing. A student could look tired but, could be feeling happy and the computer could suggest that the student is sad and miserable when in reality the student is just tired.
The article also states that Dr. Paul Eckman is using six basic emotions; happiness, surpise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. There are many more emotions that just these six, so when the computer is trying to calculate a facial expression it could be way off from how the student is really feeling since it is only using six basic emotions.
In my opinion, no, The Facial Action Coding System would not be valuable for students in a classroom. The system has only six basic emotions, which a student could be feeling none of. People don't know what another person is feeling by only looking at their facial expression. I don't agree that The Facial Action Coding System could know what a person is feeling just by seeing a facial expression especially if a human can't and I don't believe this system could be of any valuable use for a student in a classroom. | 2 |
How would you feel if the streets were car free in the city you live in? Would you prefer it that way? I would and would not at the same time because there's less traffic. Well some cities are car free like Vauban Germany,Paris and Bogota Colombia.
To Begin With, In Vauban 70 percent of the families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here. if they do own a car the car owner has to buy a car space,for $40,000, along with a home. In Paris cars were banned because of pollution and wanted to clear the air of the global city. One reason why i would prefer the city to be car free is because there is less traffic and you can get some where safely with out having to worry that you might crash or have an accident. One reason why i wouldn't prefer it to be car free is because you would take longer to get to a certain place you want to go. you would have to wait for a taxi or a bus to take to that place.
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I am going to write an essay on why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program.
You should join the Seagoing Cowboys because it gives you a lot of opportunities to see different places.
You can go visit some of the most exciting places in the world.
Also if you like animals it gives an opportunity to take care of them.
If you have never gone over seas then there is your opportunity. You travel all over the world, go over the seas, and oceans. You get to adventure the seas, oceans, and the world. Also if you are a young Seagoing Cowboy and you still need to attend school the you can learn about the countries and seas by exploring them.
Like I said earlier if you still need to attend school you can learn different languages because you are exploring the world. So by learning diffenrent languages it can open up many opportunities for you. But it doesn't need to be all about learning. You can play games on the way and see many different sites that's the whole world would want to see. Then when you come back you can tell all your friends about the trips you have had. Then maybe they would like to come along with us.
In conclusion that is why you should be a Seagoing Cowboy to have those many adventures. | 2 |
Cars- most people use them for transportation. It's our lazy way of getting to places.
Automobiles benefit us plenty when it comes to getting from point A to point B, but they also have a big negative impact. Cars are responsible for a huge amount of pollution like greenhouse gas emissions and smog. If we were to limit car usage, we could decrease the amount of stress and pollution emitted into the air, as well as give our community a chance to improve.
In Vauban, Germany, residents have given up their cars and have no problem doing so. Cars are generally not allowed, forbidden some would say, in this district. Vauban's streets are pretty much "car-free". Of course car ownership is still allowed, with the acception that you have to be able to find a place to park since there are only two places; large garages at the end of the development, where a car-owner can buy a space for $40,000, along with a home. "When i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way," Heidrun Walter stated, a mother of two. Experts say automobiles are a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emmisions from tailpipes. In Europe, passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emmisions and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States. Paris participated in a driving ban, which violators suffered a fine of 22-euro($31). Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals, for example, last week Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter while Brussels had 114 PM and 79.7 PM in London. Since Paris participated in this ban, 60 percent of Paris' smog has cleared.
In Bogota, Columbia, the city held a car-free day, leaving the streets eerily devoid of traffic jams. It was the third year in a row cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted to this Day Without Cars. Their goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog as well. Violators here faced $25 fines. Even with occasional bad weather, people still participated in this event. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," said Carlos Arturo Plaza, a business man, as he rode a two-seated bicycle with his wife. The Day Without Cars allowed parks and sports centers to bloom, uneven sidewalks to be replaced wih broad smooth sidewalks, new restaurants and upscale shopping districs to crop up, and rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic.
In the United States, Americans are starting to buy fewer cars, drive less, and get fewer licenses as each year passes (partially because cash-strapped Americans couldn't afford new cars). If this pattern continues, which many sociologists believe, it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the enviornment. Even though reducing automobile transportation could have negative implications for car industries, the positive affects are much more important. In this generation, the internet allows people to connect without having to drive to meet friends. At the Mobile World Congress last year in Barcelona, Spain, Bill Ford, executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company, laid out a business plan for a world in which personal vehicle ownership is impractical or undesirable. Ford proposed partnering with the telecommunications industry to create cities in which "pedesrtian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety."
In conclusion, cars are starting to be less and less of a neccesity, and more and more people are starting to notice that automobiles are just hurting the enviornment. By limiting car use, it can limit stress, help the enviornment as well as communities to improve, save time, conserve resources and improvee safety. There are plenty of other ways to get transportation that are less damaging and dangerous, like bicycles and walking. Of course it may take a little longer to get places without a car, but you can always ride a bus, or enjoy the scenery while riding a bike or walking. | 3 |
I am Mackenzie Dazzleberry a scientist at
NASA and we has been seeing a figure that looks like a humans head, but I don't like it's that, i think that it is a lanform. The nose could bumps from if people dumped things there or it could be bumps. The eyes could again be waste that people dumped and it formed into bumps or the nose and eyes could be hills on the face.
I also think that the face could be landforms because they are common around the American West and it looks like from the front it looks like a circle but if you look at it from the side it looks like a rectangle. The face could be a landform because we ended up revealing that it was infact a landform.
I belive that the face is a landform because of the shape on the bottom and because from all the pictures we gathered when we put them together they look like a landform, just because the things that look like eyes and a nose doen't mean that it could be an alien, the landform could have bumps or hills that formed from people dumping waste on it or from having hills on it, or it could be dents on it from things stepping, walking, or things falling on it. | 1 |
I support driverless cars to an extent. Driverless cars seem like they could help out a lot, but as paragraph nine states, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault---the driver or the manufacturer?"
That's a good question too because the driver wasn't expecting for the technology to fail, but the driver should have been ready anyways.
I enjoy the things that current smart cars do like stopping for you because it can sense the environment, but if we rely on smart cars too much it can be a problem. For example if we would rely on smart cars too often there are chances where we expect a certain thing that the car can do for our safety, but it ends up malfunctioning and causing an accident that could be deadly. I think we should stick with driverless features, but not rely on them because you always need to be ready just in case they do malfunction. It can be very deadly if you completely rely on your driverless car.
I agree with parargraph eight in it's explanation of texting and driving because many people text and there are many accidents every year due to texting and driving. In the paragraph the text states that, "Such displays can be turned off intantly when the driver needs to take over---something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern."
I find this to be very helpful for someone who texts and drives, it could possibly lower accidents caused by texting and driving. It could be very helpful to people with emergencies too where they have to respond immediately to a message, but they're driving, if they have a smart car they can let it take over for a small moment to answer the text message.
I'm going to refer back to paragraph nine again about laws being affected by driverless cars. In paragraph nine it states, "Presently, traffic laws are written wih the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars."
New laws will have to be made in order to make driverless cars legal and tht could be a problem because of all the work that is put into creating laws anyways. It could cause a confusing mess with the law system and driver's license tests would have to be remade to fit the requirement of driverless cars. Safety laws would also be affected because of the malfunctions that could happen with driverless cars as I talked about above.
As I said before, I agree with driverless cars to an extent. There can be positive effects of driverless cars, but there can also be negative effects too. I feel that we need the option to have a driverless car, but still rely on yourself to drive it and only use the driverlees option when necessary. | 3 |
Venus also known as Evening Star Is planet no to different from the planet earth. However this planet shows many challenges that don't allow us to learn more about it. The author males it very clear that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author supports his idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger many times in this article for example in the text it says "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has one paerticularly compelling idea of sending humans to stufy Venus." How are we gonna send humans down to a planet we dont know that much. This is just one of the many text eveidnce the author put in the text to show Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
The author from the very start of reading this article shows that Venus is well worth the time and effort we are putting towards it. In the text it says "Often referred to as Earth's "twin" Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size". Venus and Earth are alike in many ways for example Earth Venus and mars are our lanetary neighbors they orbit thr sun as different speeds. These differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times closer to Venus because how it says in the text "Venus is sometime right around the corner in space terms." This is other example on how well the author supports his idea of Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it present.
We have tried many ways to try to learn more about Venus but there are many things getting in our way of learning more about Venus for example in the text is says "Humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this could-draped world". We are more then exicted to try to learn more about Venus but thats not the only thing stopping us from learning more In the text is says "However peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limtied insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective." As you have read normal taking photos will not be enought just to learn and see how Venus surface is we need to go down and see ourselfs however that will be very hard somce no spaceraft survived the landing for more than a few hours as stated in the text. The author shows why his statment of how Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it present in many ways.
Astronomers are fascinated with Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system a long time ago. If Venus was once like Earth maybe it can be again because our Earth will not last forvever we will need somewhere else to go and maybe that place is Venus. In the text it says "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported varous forms of life just like earth today Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth. The planet has surface of Rocky sediment and includes familar features such as valleys mountains and craters." This text evdience shows why we are interested in learning more about Venus and once again supporting the idea of the author that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it present.
The author has shown more than once that he strongly believes that Venus is well worth all the time and effort they are putting into it. However this planet shows many challenges that don't allow us to learn more about it. The author from the very start of reading this article shows that Venus is well worth the time and effort we are putting towards it. Astronomers are fascinated with Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet. We have tried many ways to try to learn more about Venus but there are many things getting in our way of learning more about Venus. In conclution The author never let up on his idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger. | 3 |
Dear State Senator,
On behalf of my right of speech to speak, I think the government shouldn't keep the Electoral College. Because it's a process, without the process of picking out who will be the next president of the United States we would be able too choose a right president, we will choose the light for the people of the United States Of America.
The presidential election is held every four years, you help choose your states electors when you vote for your President, because you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidates electors. During the election, most states have a "winner-take-all" system that deals with all the electors to the presidential candidates. After the presidential election, The governor prepares a " Certificate of Ascertainment" listing all of the candidates running for President in your state with name of their respective electors.
The Electoral College is a process dealing with our founding fathers, whoom which they established it in the constitution as a compomise between the elections of voting for the President in Congress or by popular vote. The Electoral College consist of 538 electors, the majority is 270. Under the 23rd Amendment of te Constitution, the District of Columbia has 3 electos and are treated lke state for a purpose of the Electoral College. In following discussion the word "state" also refers to the district of Columbia. Nothing is always good tho, there is always a bad side towards everything. Like in the Electoral College system, voters don't vote for the president but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect for the President. The single argument against the electoral college is what we might call The disaster factor. State legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, those electors may always defy the will of the people.
They officially say that the electoral collge is unfair because the best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without basis in reality. The arguments against the direct elections are spurious at best. The College is regarded as an anacrinism, a non-democratic metod of selecting a president and to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes is the winner. The College restores some of the weight in the poligtical balance that large states lose by virtue of te mal-apportion of the senate decreed in the constitution. They restore some of the weight in te political balance that large states by population may lose by virtue.
The Electoral College avoids te problm of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the voting cast. It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate wo nas no hope of carrying their state. Democrats in Texas, for example, or Republicans in California. Knowing their vote will have no effect, they'll have less incentuve to pay attention to he campaign then rather the President being coosen by a popularity of votes. | 0 |
Every four years since the founding of the United States, a president has been elected by the people to lead the U.S. According to source 1, the system used to select the president is the Electoral College. The Electoral College involves voters voting for president they want, as normal, and then the president that got the majority vote in that state gets all of that state's electoral votes. Supporters of the Electoral College claim that it is good that the presidents focus more on swing states, and that they are more likely to be the thoughtful voters, but there is zero evidence shown to support this, and it makes presidents focus on states disproportionally. The Electoral College should be abolished and replaced by the popular vote system, as it is an outdated method compared to modern technology, makes the vote of an individual seem even more insignificant, and makes presidents not campaign in states that are small or loyal to them.
Since the Electoral College was hundreds of years ago, it does not account for all of the new technologies that have been developed since then. The founding fathers could not have possibly thought that it would be possible to easily count all of the nation's votes with a machine, but now it is possible. It is likely that the reason they thought of the Electoral College in the first place was because it would mean that they could spread out the tallying of votes between the states, instead of doing it all at once. Nowadays though, there are computers that can count votes faster than ever imagined. Popular vote is now a viable method since every person's vote can be accurately counted.
Due to the Electoral College relying on a majority rules system, the vote of a single person can be completely insignificant. According to source 3, a supporter of the Electoral College, "Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election...." This should not be the case when voting. Voters should research their choice as if the election relied completely on them. But instead, there is a system in place where somebody's vote can be rendered completely useless in not multiple ways! For example, if a state already has their majority of citizens voting for president A, if somebody votes for president B it will be as if they didn't vote at all! Even in a case where the state is completely 50:50 on who to give the electoral votes to, if the last person votes for president A, tipping the majority in his favor, according to source 2, "... those electors could always defy the will of the people," and end up voting for President B. The Electoral College is an anti-thesis to democracy, because a citizen's vote can be rendered completely pointless at multiple points.
Both those who support the Electoral College system and those who oppose it agree that the Electoral College puts a much bigger focus on swing states and states with large populations, according to sources 2 and 3. To put this into perspective, here's an example of why supporting big swing states should not be rewarded. The US has 6 states. 5 are completely democrats and each have populations of 20. 1 is half democrat half republican and has a population of 100(assume 20 people equals an electoral vote). If the republican presidential candidate convinces a single democrat in the big state to vote for them, they will get the majority vote in that state and get 5 electoral votes. This results in the democratic presidential candidate, with 149 people supporting him, tying with the republican presidential candidate, with 51 people supporting him. Simple logic shows that the opinion of 149 people is more important than that of 51 people, so a popular vote system would have been best in this situation. The focus on certain states is such a popular method by the presidential candidates, that, according to source 2, "During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all..."Big states and swing states should not receive much more attention per citizen from the presidential candidates than little states do.
In conclusion, the Electoral College should be replaced by the popular vote system as soon as possible. The Electoral College relies on archaic methods to make tallying votes simpler for the government, which results in problems. It's like the government is rounding the votes. The winner-takes-all method of the Electoral College can render a voter's vote completely useless, and it even allows representatives to vote for the presidential candidate that is against the voter's wills. Presidential candidates will not bother campaigning in states that are loyal to their adversary or are too small to be worth their time. While a single person's opinion might not seem important, or rounding votes seems "easier," no corners should ever be cut when deciding who the leader of a nation with over 50 million citizens is, which is why the Electoral College should be replaced by the popular vote system. | 4 |
Driverless cars have both their prositives and negatives. The idea that cars will be use half of the fuel today is good thing for air pollution and that they will offer more flexibility than a bus is also. Some negatives would include that they will invade your privacy and that traffic laws might not advance as the car industry does.
Cars will use "half the fuel of today's taxis". This would be a positive because then there will be less air pollution. A person that is part of the fuel industry might bring up the fact that with that the fuel economy will start to decrease. There will not be much profit and that will not be good for them. Driverless cars will "offer more flexibility than a bus". This would be good for people that need to get to work fastser or get somewhere else faster. Buses have to make stops as they go whereas this car would not. Sergey Brin "beleives such cars would fundamentally change the world.
These driverless cars could potentially use "cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver." This idea would leave drivers with very less privacy in these cars. You will not know when you are being watched. One other big negative part of driverless cars is that they traffic laws might not advance along with the cars. In order for all of this to work out you would need for everyone to work along.
Driverless cars may be the future that people will have to adapt to. Many people play a vital role in this because many things will have to change. I think that they should not be the future because I do not like the idea that they will invade privacy. You will not know who is watching you at any given time. You will not know if you are even being watched. This can make drivers feel as if they are not being trusted. Some people may disagree with that because after all it does have many postive aspects. | 2 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming"
the author covers many points and facts about driverless cars. The author speaks about the advantages and disadvantages of the introduction of these cars. The author also speaks about the major companies making these cars from Google to Nissan. Nontheless driverless cars could prove to be unsafe, epensive, and have to many negative possibilites. These negative tradeoffs out weigh the possitive tradeoffs thus showing that introducing driverless cars would do more harm then good.
The article states "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and Pedestrians safe..." The introduction of driverless cars would make this law harder to keep. This would be because the burden to be safe would no longer be in human hands but in the hands of a cumputer and some sensors. We have all had computers glitch or take a while to repond. It happens all the time. But then the safty of human life is in the hand of a computer it becomes somewhat disheartening. Weather conditions could also prove to be an issue with safty. Would there be a limit to how hot or how cold the environment would have to be for the sensors to work properly? With this much riding on the safty of human lives the driverless car seems to be a very unwise choice.
The answer on how expensive these cars would have to be is partly answered in paragraph six when the author states "Radar was a device on a hilltpop that cost two hundred million dollars. It wasent something you could buy at a Radio Shack." If Radar back then was two hundred million dollars imagen how much a driverless car will be. Only the elite rich will be able to afford one and the majority of the popution will not. This shows that even if the driverless car was to come out in the near future only a handful of the population would have it since they would be the only ones who could afford it. But this also raises the issue with new roads since old ones would somewhat have to be updated in the long run. The article states that magnetic roads would be too expensive so smarter cars would be needed the roads would have to change a least a little to suit smart cars. With the many things that tax payer dollars are used for there would need to be an addition to smarter roads.
The negative possibilites of the introduction to smart cars are endless. The articel states " in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars." This shows that law makers are fearful or the outcomes that some of these cars could create. Also the problem with the rise in law suit when these cars would get into an accident would also have to be put into account. The article adresses the problem of who would be to blame the driver or the maker of the car. Not only would this bring out more problems and law suits it would make it hard to find who was at fault. Also in the possiblity of an acccident if people were to be sleeping or watiching a movie responce time to move the car would be a varying constant from person to person showing that even if people were to get involved the chance to change the situation could be very slim.
WIth all of these negative situations
that driverless cars could cause it could be safe to say than the negative possibilites outweigh the positve possibilites. Driverless cars could prove to be unsafe, expensive, and have many negative possibilites. Showing that driverless are cars are not a very good idea. | 4 |
The President of the United States is currently determined by an electoral college. The electoral college process involves the public voting for their elector and not the main focus, the candidates. Through this, many of the states gain more power than they should, and the votes are set up as a "Winner-takes-all" system. This unneccessary and inaccurate use of votes is outdated and needs to be shut down.
In an instant, an electoral college voter could change his or her mind and go against his or her original political party. This is a completely unfair use of power because it reverses all of the votes that went to the elector and to all of the voters who were counting on the elector to properly represent their vote. The voters have no say in whether the elector will stay true to his or her party.
The easiest way to prove that the electoral college must go, is to reveal the facts. In source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College it states "over sixty percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now". Multiple icons such as Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO have stated they would like to abolish the electoral college as well! We now have the majority vote to put an end to the electoral college and the unfair system.
"Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote," says source 2. A tie in the votes, which is very much possible since the total number of votes is 538, according to source 1, could then allow the fate of America to rest in the hands of the House of Representatives, a miniscule representation of the people. If the voting system were to be changed to the popular vote, the results would accurately display the winner that the majority of America chose.
"It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational," says Bradford Plumer, and he couldn't be closer to the truth. The electoral college system does not represent the people of America accurately and is more likely to result in a tie compared to the popular vote. To conclude, source 3 says the electoral college is "a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner
". | 3 |
The Electorial College is something in the United States that needs to be replaced. It is an irrational system that takes the people's power to vote away from them. The system has flaws that leave the possibility of disaster open to happen. It takes the power to choose the goverment officials from the people, and gives it to a group of people who can vote either way. Why would we keep this?
The Electorial College is a way to choose the Presidential canidate who wins the election. It involves a slate of electors (according to Source 2) who cast their votes in. The people in each state vote for the winning electors of that state. The electors pledge to a canidate and thats what people vote for. Once the people choose a winning elector group they go to Congress and cast their votes in for who they want, and that person then gets so many votes. The problem is that the electors aren't required to vote for who they said they would, so if the elector suddenly decided to change his mind after he or she won, the people's votes are basically invalidated and a different elector gets the votes. This effectively removes the people from the equation in who gets elected. All an elector would have to do is win over the people, then he or she could just change their minds and cast a different vote than what they said they were going to do. The people who vote don't even vote for the Presidential canidate in this system, they vote for a bunch of electors that they hope will vote for what they said.
This is not an irrational, unrealized fear. It has actually happened before. According to Source 3, in the 2000 election, Al Gore had a majority of popular votes, but less electorial votes, so he lost to Bush. This isn't even the first time it has happened, it has happened previous times throughout U.S. history. This is a clear example of how flawwed the Electorial College system. Between the possibility of the people's votes not counting for anything, and that they don't even actually vote for their preffered canidate, this system needs to be replaced.
Some may argue that the chance of an elector not casting his or her vote that he pledged to is very slim. Why would you even be ok with taking such a chance? It's better to be one-hundred percent sure of what will happen instead of ninety-five percent. Also, since most states in the U.S. award electorial votes by a winner-takes-all basis (according to Source 3), if one side of the votes wins, even by a slim margin, they get all the votes. This seems unfair, since if they won by a slim margin at least some of the state thinks it should be a different vote. It would make more sense if the states awarded both sides of the vote if it was a close win for one side or the other, but they would award the true winner with more votes than the narrow loser.
Another problem with the E.C. system is that states that are largely of one belief ( Republican or Democrat ect. ) have no real reason to pay attention to the opposite side of the canidacy. Since the state would be largely one thing or the other, it is irrelivant if thirty percent of the state votes one way if seventy percent of the state votes the other, since the landslide victory style of electorial vote giving is present in most states. This also means that states that are biased and small states get almost no exposure from the opposite side of the canidacy because they know they have almost no chance of winning their votes. This seems to force the voters to choose one canidate's electors because they don't know enough about the other.
In conclusion, the Electorial College needs to be replaced with a more fair, balanced system. It has the potential to allow the electors to defy the will of the people who voted them in, invalidating the people's votes and making them pointless. It also has candates only focusing their ads and visits on the states with more votes and the states biased towards their party. Finally, it has almost all the states have a landslide "winner-takes_all" style of awarding electorial votes. This means if one side of electors only wins by a slim margin, the other side gets nothing, even though since they lost by a small number they clearly have a sizeable amount of voters for them. The Electorial College needs to be removed before someone takes advantage of it's serious flaws and takes the votes of the people and makes them useless. | 4 |
I think that having driverless cars would be a good idea because many people text and drive. Even though its against the law people are still going to do it but with driverless cars you could text if you want and it wouldnt matter because you wouldnt be the one driving. This also goes for drinking and driving, thats another big issue around the world. People like to drink and then leave in there cars which causes many wrecks and harms many people, but with driverless cars it wouldnt matter if you were drunk because, again, you wouldnt be the one driving. I think that having driverless cars would also be kind of weird. More like different. Having to drive your car is all people have ever known. It would be knew to everyone but im sure it wouldnt be difficult at all but i dont know. I hope that one day in my life time driverless cars are created. I think that it would be a cool sight to see and an experience for everyone. I think that they should invent the driverless car and let people try them out and see if it would a good idea to make them more popular and let more and more people start driving them. If driverless cars do become a new thing, im sure it will take quite sometime for them to be completely ready to be drivin around and used daily. Thats if it even happens which I hope it does because I think it would be cool. | 1 |
Would you join a seagoing cowboys program? Just imagine how good of a idea this would be. It's a good idea to join because you can visit many unique places, experience adventures, and there is travelling if you work.
First, you can see many unique things during the Seagoing Cowboys program. You can also visit unique things while traveling, and find unique stuff during this program. This proves that you should join this program.
Second, you can experience adventures. You can experience adventures by going over the oceas. You can slso experience adventures by taking care of the animals. This is another reason why you should join Seagoing Cowboys program.
Finally, you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program becasue there is traveliling if you work. So you work to experience unique places and things. Also experience adventures and all you have to do is work a little bit. This is the final reason why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program.
If you join this program it is a good idea because you can visit many unique places, experience advcentures, and and travelling if you work on the ship. So you should really consider joing this program. | 1 |
Our current voting system seems completely unfair and odd. Why should what the majority of the people want have to go through an electoral college first, we leave it to them to decide what people want. The electoral college process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of electors where they vote fot the president and vice president. It also includes the counting of electoral votes by congress.
To begin with, the Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required for a president to be elected. The number of electors in each state equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation. One for each member in the House of Representatives and plus two for the senators. Under the electoral college system voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president.
Next, the electors can be anyone not holding oublic office. The disaster factor is the main reason why people don't like this system. The 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century. The state legislators are responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy what the people want. There have been many disasters in the history of the elections having to do with the Electoral College.
Also, the worst thing that could happen is if there was a tie. If there was the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives. | 1 |
In the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author's main purpose is to suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author excells at backing up his claim by providing benefits of traveling to Venus, the dangers that it comes with, and how NASA has strived to make traveling there possible. The author does well at supporting his claim that traveling to Venus has value because scientists are aware of the dangers that are presented.
The author initially gives background information about the planet Venus and transitions to the factors of Venus that are dangerous. For example, the author says that Venus has "a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide" and "clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid." The author continues giving specific challenges by saying that Venus's temperatures "average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience." Lastly, the author explains the geology and weather dangers such as "erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes." The author provides these specific dangers in the article to show the readers that scientists are aware of the challenges they must deal with so that they are prepared.
Although the author presents these numerous challenges of Venus, the author does a fantastic job of immediately explaining why it is worthy to go there. For instance, the author explains that Venus "may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." The author gives evidence of this claim by saying, "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size," and that is was "covered largely with oceans...and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." This evidence provides the readers with benefits of learning more about Venus. Furthermore, the author also explains that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit because it could "be our nearest option for a planetary visit." The author does execellent at supporting this idea and even gives evidence that this is not a fantasy.
The authors's claim of Venus being a worthy pursuit is realistic because the author provides ideas that NASA has developed to safely travel there. For example, the author gives evidence that NASA has worked on allowing "scientists to float above the fray." The author provides specifics of avoiding these risks saying, "...the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels." This evidence supports the author's claim that scientists have taken serious consideration to study Venus.
In conclusion, the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit because it is the most similar planet to Earth, so they should learn more about it. The author also includes the numerous factors that are dangerous when visiting Venus. However, the author emphasizes that these challenges and doubts should not limit the strive to gain more insight on Venus. | 4 |
My position on diverless cars is that I believe that it should not be made at least not in these next 5 to 10 years. There for i am against the development of these kinds of cars.Like it says in the artical Brin says he believes ,believes such cars would fundamentally change the world.In what way will it change the world ? It will not change the world not even if he says that it will take up half of gas and oil but there will still be enough that would finish it.Becuase so many will be driving them and so many will be useing up all those resorces .And also saying that in the artical that no one buys the cars becuase they wont need it anymore becuase of his new invention will it would put out hard working people into the streets and replacing them with people who know how to create those types of cars.
Now so far in his state ment the cars he has created have not carshed YET!! Can still be crashed or into a crashed accident.And when its into a crash then who will the driver blam or sew for the damage that is done ? Will the driver have to pay becuase he or she wasnt driving the car was. There for its bad to even think about these self driven cars without thinking all these possible things that could happen.And if there cars are so driverless then why do they still need the driver to be in alert ? Becuase the car can not pull in or out driveways or deal with complicated traffic issues. As said in the artical beuse there still not driverless so why have a car that suposely can drive by its self if it cant even pull out or in or drive it selfs when there is a traffic issues.I mean might as will drive it you're self. Now if these types of cars are made will then will new roads will have to be made? If so then wont that cost alot of money then that money will be taken out of our pockets and put into those roads.That some of us wont be able to use becuase we have no self driven cars.
Also this wouldnt teach the new drivers to be responsiable becuas epart of driving is the responsibility.And if these were to be made then many ppl will be out of busines becuase were are they supose to go for there driving licesenes if they dont need one becuase they have self driving cars .They wouldnt have to worry about them driving becuase there would be a hallogram driving for them.Cars of today should be left alone and those cars that are being planed for everyone should be made 5 to ten years from now once its all thought about.There for I am against the development of these elf driven cars. | 3 |
Would you ever wonder what it would be like to go to Venus, well as often reffered to as Earth's twin. Many people suggest that Venus was somewhat like Earth long ago. In many cases people have been working on other projects like mechanical computers despite the chaos in Venus. Furthermore I think if we study Venus more challenges will come upon but, other good innovations will come too.
One reason why people should study Venus more is because more advancement in technology will come. Also more ideas from the scientist's on how to make airplanes travel at a high altitude. According to the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" "Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions (5)." Furthermore if studying Venus and creating technology we could have another so like Earth.
Another reason why people should study Venus is because it has some familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. Also creating machines to last longer in Venus now that there has been some cases that other spacecraft don't survive. According to the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" " Many researcher are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus (6)." In addition if we create machines that can last long and survive the pressure, we could land in Venus for the first time.
While some people may say what is the point in making spacecraft airplanes. People think that if making a spacecraft that the same thing will happen when they sent a spacecraft off to Venus and did not survive because of the pressure. "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degress Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet (3)." Furthermore I justify that if scientist ever have the curiosity of going to Venus that they go.
In conclusion would you ever like to go to Venus and study? I surely would because it could tell me a whole lot about the planet. Also how it is different from all the planets from our solar system. Another the features and similarities that is has with earth. Lastly the technology that would come if we go to Venus. | 3 |
In the article, "Making Mona Lisa smile", by Nick D'Alto, the author explain how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers software to detect human emotions. The use of this technology can help teachers recognize their students feelings or emotions in order to help them in the areas they need help in. The author states, "the new-recognition software tracks these facial movements-in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa". The new technology can help teachers recognize if the contents being taught in class is boring or confusing for the students and it will help the teacher to clarify or modify the lesson or determine a way to help the students understand the materials.
The system can help teachers identify their students emotions through their facial expression.
Many experts are developing ways to recognize and percieve mixed emotions and subtle facial movements we use to express how we feel through technology. This new technology can be very effective in classrooms all over the world. It will help enhance students learning in classroom also it will be useful for the teacher as well.
In the article, the author states, "A classroom computer could recould recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored", Dr Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor".
Many teachers can use this new technology to boost their student knowledge and make learning fun for the students.
Teachers can also use this new technology to promote their students growth. They can use this new technology to determine the areas they can help their students in by using this new technology to detect how they feel about the contents being taught in class. Many students don't ask questions or ask for help even if they need it.
"Most humans communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication", notes Dr. Huang. "So computers need to understand that too", states Dr. Huang. By using this new technology, teachers can recognize nonverbal and emotional communication in order to find a way to help their students.
The new technology can enhance students enthusiasm. It can build their confidence in learning through their achievements in school. It will helps students with their performance in school and their grades. Teachers using this technology to detect how their students feel about the lessons being taught in class and finding a way to help them with their studies can help students achieve high scores on their test. The technology is very valuable in classroom.
In conclusion, the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is very useful and valuable. It can help teachers to recognize how their students feel about the materials being taught in class in order to help them better understand it. It can also help teacher clarify topics to students and help them achieve a high score on their tests. The new technology can make learning fun for students. In addition, the new technology can help students build their confidence in learning by helping teachers detect their emotions using this new technology. | 3 |
Studing venus is not a worthy pursuit despiting the dangers it prevents, becasue it is dangereous, it can kill anything that lands on it, and becasue it is not a healthy planet. "Venus is one of the biggest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amature stargazer to spot." "In our solar system, venus is the second planet from our sun."
Venus is dangerous because in paragragh two it calims that each previos mission was unmanned, and for a good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. This issue exapins why not a single spaceship has touched down on venus in more than three decades. Numerous factors to study, despite its proximity to us. A thick atmosphere of almost of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfiric acid in Venus's atmosphere.
Why it kills things that land on Venus is becasue on the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times grater than what we experince on our own planet. These conditions are far more extreame than anything humans encounter on Earth: such an enviornment would crash even a submarine accustomed to dividing to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals.According to paragragh 3 its aslo notable, venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though murcury is closer to our sun. Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to probes seekignto land on its surface.
NASA has one particularly compeling idea for sending humans to study Venus. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditons by staying up and out of their way. At thirty plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees fahrenhiet. but the air pressure would be close to that od sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radtiation would not exceed Earth levels. not easy conditions but survivable for humans. Claimed paragragh 5.
Acording to paragragh 4, long ago venus was probably covered largely with oaceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet's surface is rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountians, and crators. Many resaerchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last longer enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. Paragragh 8 claims our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 3 |
Venus exploration I can tell the author cares about venus by putting down many ways humans can exploer it from going there he says it was very worthy of going we would just need a blimp like vehicle too hover over 30 miles above the land becuse the surface of venuse is very hot just in the blimp hovering over 30 miles would be 170 dagrees but where the blimp is sitting its at sae levels on earth. They are finding out ways too make electronics go onto venus because there is a lot of danger if we put a human on venus 170 dagrees is too hot for the human body unless they got the blimp at freezing tempatures the people inside will burn righht up blood will boil and people will get heat strokes. But if we put electronicson the planet that can survive the tempatures we might not have a problem with people being burned alive and we could actually exploer the lands of Venus we could make vheacles out of strong silicone for this mission it would be easier too make vehicle out of the stuff. | 0 |
What is the square root of 100,012? You might not know, but your computer does. Infact your computer knows a lot, but one thing it doesnt know is how to detect feelings. Why is there a camera on your computer? Who knows? Lets put that camera to use! As we know computers tend to be used more often. I agree with the idea of allowing computers to identify what mood the user is in and adjusting accordingly. I agree with this because technology is advancing, normal computers can't compete with this upgrade, and computer ads tend to be annoying.
Mona Lisa, the subject of a wonderful painting. A painting which appears she is smiling in. Smiling as if she is happy? How can we be sure that she is happy? Is it as simple as looking at the picture? In paragraph 4 is tells us that "Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements". How can a camera identify how a person is feeling? Simple, technology is improving and computers are being updated.
Computers truly are fascinating, but as asked in Paragraph 2 "Can a computer recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel?". These new computers can detect movement of one or more muscles in the face. The computer will then categorize the movement into one of these 6 categories happiness,suprise,anger,disgust,fear,and sadness. But then "Boom" and ad pops up, arent ads just annoying.
Ads, ads, ads all on the screen. How could you get rid of irrelevant ads? Well with this new software your compter will be able to detect is you are satified with your ads or not. If you appear happy when an ad pops up, your computer will discontinue to show the ad and replace it with another one. If a satisfying look appears on your face after and ad appears, your computer will continue to show ads that satisfy the user. | 1 |
The author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System that enables computers to identify human emotions sould be valuable. I would want to see people's different emotions from the face from the past and today. This could be a new science technology that we ever made. It's just like a math and science subject, but trying to figure out more of different people's emotions. They could be angry or happy or have any other emotions.
This technology would be great for school education, maybe in college. It could be a new subject for a science class. For these six emotions for the class, it would be a great class to pass a high school class. Doing this is pretty cool to do. Out of all the science classes and math classes it could prove that emotions for humans would be great.
That is what we should do for the future science class talking about emotions. It would be great for it to pass a science class in high school, or college. | 1 |
Driveless cars should indeed be the next big thing. Having a driveless taxi service will be even better for people who can't afford a stable transportaion everyday. Starting off the cars may not be as safe but things will progess to get better to where you can trust your child being in a driveless car. Having these cars will make streets more busier but it will help everybody get to where they need to be at a certain time. We are expecting to run out of oil in the next 30 years so trying to find a solution now is something that needs to be done now. Cars are something we use everyday in the world, we will not be albe to use them is we have no oil so trying to find more better and less expensive ways are better. Having a driveless car saves tons of many with not having to buy all of the time.
Cars will forever be needed all around the world for everyday use, rather its with oil or not we will forever need them. This was will be a very good way to continuing on to have cars and getting place to place. With technology being so good now, we can make a very safe drivless car that will attract everyones attention to switch over to a driveless car. Not only will we not have to spend tons on gas there will also be less air pollution and that is something we need because air pollution is just going to continue on getting worse if we do not try to stop it now before it gets to hard for us human and also animals to breath than that will bring many health problems which leads on to death for humans and animals. If us humans lose our animals that us losing everything to where it won't be any man kind left here on Earth. One tiny mistake could hurt everything, maybe driveless cars don't sound safe but you can only find out if you try them out. Everything happens for a reason so maybe this is for the good and we have to get poeple to understand all of the postiv ethings that a driveless car has to offer to people. Letting people know the pros and cons will change people minds knowing that the pros outweigh the cons.
There is both good and bad things that can result of of this but we will never know until perople test it out. Driveless cars are something that us as humans have to work on together to make it come true. Viewing it as a postive thing will be a good way on making this come true. Be more open-minded sometimes we as people have to take risk to see what the results are. Driveless cars will be a very good way for people to get transport. | 3 |
Do you think this "face" was created by aliens? I think not because this "face" was not created by aliens but created by a natural landform. Landforms happen all the time, just because it happend on another planet doesn't mean aliens did it.
In the article NASA unveiled the picture for all to see and THEY captioned it "huge rock formation" . Which basicly means even NASA doen't think it was aliens who created it. Also after the articles states what NASA captioned the picture, it says "formed by shadows giving the ALLUSION of eyes, nose, and mouth." Its just an allusion not even a face really.
Also, the aticle says "there was no alien monument arter all." if NASA really believed aliens did that I don't think NASA would release it to the world. I'm sure the government is strict on them on releasing things to the public. NASA probably wanted people to pay attention to them so they can have their one minute fame. Skeptics think alien marking were hidden by haze. Come on really, all the great technology NASA has and you think it was hidden behind clouds.
The technology they have is great. When they finally got a clear shot to take a picture, they took it. After they took it, they zoomed in three times bigger... nothing. NASA said if there were any small shacks or evidence of aircraft you would have seen what they were. Marvin, from NASA says it reminded him of landforms created on Earth, so if an expert that works at NASA
thinks that it was created by a landform, then why do we think it was an alien or aliens that created it?
In conclusion, the "face" was not created by an aliens or aliens, but was just created by a landform. | 2 |
Driverless cars have become a prominent part of today's modern society. Many people are looking for more efficient ways to travel from one location to another. Dirverless cars are making the need for efficiency possible, and
the cars will have the ability to change the way the world thinks and functions. Driverless cars will offer new ideas for environment- friendly public transportation, safety features, and entertainment features.
Driverless cars will not only be fast and efficient, but also economically and environmentally friendly. In the article, "Driverless Cars are Coming," Google cofounder, Sergey Brin, envisions that today's public transportation will eventually disappear. Instead of public transportation that exists today, a driverless car form of public transportation will serve as a replacement. The driverless cars will be more environmentally friendly, because the cars will use half the fuel of today's taxis. The air pollution in major cities and even in rural areas will become greatly reduced if driverless cars are being used as public transportation means. The driverless car will not only be economically friendly, but also extremely felixble. The driverless car will offer more flexibility than buses, allowing people to arrive at a destination on time or even before.
Also, driverless cars will be able to provide new safety features that human-controlled cars cannot. The driverless cars will be able to steer, accelerate, and brake bythemselves. GM has developed driver's seats that have the capablity to vibrate and warn drivers when their vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. The warning signal will prepare drivers to take over in an event of an emergency. Other safety features include flashing lights on the windshield and other heads-up displays. Manufacturers hope to install cameras in driverless cars that can make sure drivers are focused on the road. In other words, the car is watching over the driver as he/she drives.
Manufactures are hoping to provide entertainment and informational systems, too. Manufacturers would install the entertainment and information systems so the driver would not become bored in the driverless car. The entertainment and information systems would use heads up displays that could turn off instantly in case of an emergency. The heads up displays are a huge safety feature and is something not available to today's drivers trying to text with a cell phone.
Overall, driverless cars are a new and interesting area of technology that should be explored by an evolving society who strives to find new, safe, and efficient ways to complete tasks. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to sell cars that have the ablilty to drive themselves by 2020. The idea for driverless cars is quickly aproaching, and society should accept driverless cars as a new way of transportation. | 4 |
I think facial action coding system should'nt be used in the classroom to read students emotions. most students wouldnt want there there emotions being read its like envading privacy of ones thoughts and of course emotion.
Dr. Huang says that in the classroom the FACS could determine ones emotion of being confused or bored,but wouldnt it also try to read other emotions as well? Thats not exactly fair to the students. You couldnt rely on it working right anyway. If a student is actually upset they could put a smile on ther face and the conmputer would read it as happy.
Another claim what if students refuse to go to school because of the FACS what is the studet wants to be left alone and the teacher could start critizing them for not paying attention or being distracted or bored. That wouldnt exactly help anything for the student emotionally. Although he/she maybe bored or depressed and not really paying attention they could just be having a bad day or week,and FACS is envading there emotions.
I think that FACS should not be used in the classroom but ore like for military purposes. Or they could be used in police investigations, not for stdents in the classroom. If students are confused they should be the ones to make up there mind and ask questions. | 2 |
The image that has been being showed from NASA has studies thinking two different things. Some say it is a face that was created by "aliens", others are saying it is just a natural landform. There are three different images from different years that have showed formation and changes. The years listed on the images from NASA are 1976, 1998, and finally 2001. The name for the image is being called "Unmasking the Face on Mars".
The image that is being showed is just a natural landform. If it was something created from the aliens, it would have more evidence than what has been being showed. Aliens want to make themselves noticed not physically but mentally. I am correct because Mars Global Surveyor stated "thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform." With the technology NASA has, they will always prove others wrong who aren't supporting their claim of evidence. If I was a scientist, I would take my time studying the weird natural landform that was created before I let go any information to the people all around the world including studies like myself. Another reason why you should believe that the image is a natural landform is because Garvin stated "that's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." In space with all the planets that we have, anything can be formed onto them and turn out to be just a regular sighting for them and not something so mind thinking like this whole natural landform turned out to be.
This whole image is just a natural landform that has been formed. My opponet believes that it was a image created by "aliens" which was incorrect. With my proof and evidence my claim has been supported enough to be able to decide that it's just a natural landform. If it would have been created by aliens,
then the aliens would have created more than just a face on earth that turned out to be just a natural landform. Everyone may calm down because I have proven that the image all along was just a natural landform. | 2 |
Imagine a world where you literally don't need to do a thing. Where supposely you are in a safer world with drieverless cars roaming your streets. More technology will only increase the risks of getting into an accident.
First off, I strongly disaggre with this concept as a whole. As the story says, "Can you imagine a time in the future when no ones buys cars because no one needs them anymore?". Even if it doesn't say, but if we start to produce driverless cars then how will we be able to travel through the country. By feet? Yes, it will save us money from paying to much for fuel; also "we" will be getting to things much later.
Meanwhile, Google has built cars where they are somewhat driverless, but still need human skills at moments. In paragraph 2 it further explains, "Google cars aren't driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents". This was around 2009 and later on in 2013 Google picks up their game. Now, BMW's can function at a higher speed and has special sensors. This just shows us that we basically don't need to be in the car; but they have yet made it to that point.
In the near future, Google wants to have other options for example. In paragraph 9, "Other options under consideration are flashing lights on the windshield and other heads-up displays. Manufactures are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver." There is no reason for this to be happening to society. This is going to incease more accidents, becaause of our ignorance.
All in all, if in 2020 there were driverless cars roaming around in the streets; then this will be a bad place to live at. The reason for disagreeing with this is strongly base on health. The driverless cars today shouldn't even be named driverless cars, because they don't come close to it. The more advancments we add, the more dangerous the car becomes. Us just sitting in the drivers seat and letting the car take over is plain just nonsense. Flying cars is something I would agree to, now that is safer. | 2 |
The election process is complex, but not unreasonable. Over the course of several months, candidates travel across the country to speak out to the people of the United States and hopefully gain their vote. Finally, in November, the big moment arrives. It is the pinaccle of all their hard work - all the speeches they've performed, good deeds that have been promoted, and promises that were made by them lead up to then. However, who is truly voting for them? Is it the people, or a external party? The answer is the Electoral College, which is an essential part of our government. The process is well-organized, and aids us in selecting our president by using electors from each state to more accurately vote.
To begin with, without the Electoral College, there would possibly be less clarity in the election process. Moreover, there would not be the sense of fairness or equality when it comes to voting. Because of it, there is a reliable system in which the population votes, which is then brought to the state's electors to be evaluated and voted on unanimously. If it weren't for this, there would be the possibility of run-off elections in which there is no obvious winner since the votes are tied or very close. Thankfully, since the Electoral College uses a winner-takes-all method in the determination for each state's votes, the pressure "is reduced by the Electoral College, which invariably produces a clear winner." (22) | 1 |
The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because Venus is known as Eath's "twin" and is closest planet to Earth, and the untold mysteries it holds.
Exploring Venus to study is infact dangerous but as the aouthor states in the text " Today, Venus still has some features that are analgous to thos on Earth". This line explains that the possibilities of surving in Venus is about 50/50, it also meant that if Venus has these various feathers that Earth have, then it's the chances of being able to go there is hiher because of feathers like; oceans, valleys, mountains, craters, and differnt forms of life. It also says that " NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray".
This is significant because it explained how the NASA already have plans and intructions for this event that they are hoping to make it happen. Furthermore, it says how the process and devices would help them to go on Venus and how it is survivable for humans because the temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, and machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to the NASA's knowledge of Venus.
This article shows all the possibilities of surviving on Venus to study the Venus with their new machines, and innovations for the sucess. | 2 |
Dear Senator of Florida,
What's recently been rated the most despised way of voting? Electoral college. It's outdated,unfair,and irrational. If the people are really voting why is it up to eletoral college to decide. I think giving the people the power to vote is a great idea,but popular vote should really be the decider of who gets to be the president Popular vote can be changed though,we could make it a safer and more truthful way of voting. We can live in space for months,discover all sorts of life forms, and so much more. Yet we keep advancing,it's about time for some change in voting. I think electoral college should be aboished.
There's so many ways we could make popular vote work. Basically the citizens don't really vote,it's all up to senate. It's everyone else's opinion not really socitey's. Which i think is very unfair. Popular vote can be a good thing. It can be made safer. We can use technology,a camera in the voting booths to monitor cheating, and the upcoming electors have to be watched to make sure there is no cheating or voting fraud. Even though there shouldn't be voting fraud,we can prevent it. I'd like to say the people of the nation should be able to vote for their own president,not someone else who is probably paid off by the electors. Cheating will go down if popular vote is used instead of electoral college,the elector can't pay everyone in the U.S off. We need some type of change.
Electoral college has been around since our founding fathers,it's even in the 23rd amendment. It's like a tradition but some thimes you find better traditions. I'm not saying you have to change everything about elections, i'm just saying you could use some little tweaks. Electoral college is a process, along with everything else in life. Most U.S citizenz don't even vote, they think their opinion doesn't matter. I think the U.S government should embody the U.S and their citizens, not just senate or electoral college. Electoral college had a good run now it's time to change. We need to take action. If our vote is overruled by senate why vote? Electoral vote is anachronism. It's the 21rst millenium let's make it the best yet. | 2 |
As americans, we use vehicles quite a bit. From driving to school and work, to going to the gym or hanging out with friends. But although we use these 4-wheeled machines on a regular basis, would limiting the usage of cars be benefitial?
Despite the fact that we use vehicles as our primary source of transportation, cars are actually polluting the air, and causing danger in our lives. According to paragraph 9, in the source titled
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars
; many places, including the United States, are promoting "car reduced" communities. It is believed that America's "love affair" with its vehicles seems to be cooling, as recent studies show "Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by" Which was quoted in source 4, titled
The End of Car Culture.
Bill Ford, of Ford motor company, proposed to partnering with the telecommunitcations industry to create cities where transportation traffic is conjoined with a connected network to conserve resources and improve safety.
In a sense of taking away stress and trying to lower air pollution, residents of Bogota, Colombia and Vauban, Germany have been biking, hiking, and skating to work. Residents have claimed to have been happier, and less tense since the car free environment came about. In France, however, a "partial driving ban" was set to clear the air, after days of a near-record pollution.
Cars are used on a daily basis. But if we ease off the gas and start hitting the breaks on the use of cars in modern day, would it make America a happier place? | 1 |
Luke was offered a trip to Europe on a boat by a friend and of course he couldn't say no. So Luke took the offer but World War II was going in Europe and many countries were left in ruins. A group called UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the animals that were shipped over seas.
According to the text in August 1945, they received their orders to report to New Orleans. They arrived August 14 the day the Pacific war was over. Luke turned 18 the day before arriving in Greece, which meant he could be drafted for military service. He was discharged in 1947 but Luke had already made nine trips the most any Seagoing Cowbody had ever done.
Luke had a great experience doing something he loved and also helping out others. He went to Europe to have a fun vacation but ended up helping fourty-four countries that were in ruins. I would encourage a lot of people to join the Seagoing Cowboy program because you get to travel around and visit a lot of countries but also you get to help out countries that aren't at there finest at the moment. This supports why I would suggest people to join. | 1 |
Despite the dangers, the author believes that studying Venus is worth pursuing because it can help us understand more and know what the planet Venus was like years ago. On paragraph 2 of the article "The Challenges of Exploring Venus", the author states that Venus is often reffered to as Earth's "twin" since it is the closest (aside from Mars) looking to Earth when is comes to desity and size. The author feels Astronomers may find existing life forms since most of Venus was probably covered in large oceans and Venus still, has some look-alike features to Earth such as; Valleys, moutains and craters. Since Venus is the nearest planet to Earth, many Astronomers also believe Venus could be our option for planetary visit, the planet is safe for humans to survive in anyway. On paragraph 8, the author states "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet istelf, but also becuase human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally endeavors." meaning, traveling to Venus could have some good surprises waiting. The author also states in that very paragraph, "Our travels on Earth and beyong should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." Meaning he is all for dangers as long as he is able to meet the "very edges of imagination and innovation" as he quotes. | 1 |
In Vauban, Germany, the citizens are not allowed to own cars and if they do, they're parked on outskirts of the city or in garages at the end of their developments. The citizens walk and bike ride places, and they refrain from using their vehicle as much as possible. Overall, people are happier. They're getting more exercise and are being able to enjoy the outdoors and communicate with eachother more than if you were passing your neighbor in your car. It leaves the streets safer for the children and creates a more family-centered environment that the rest of Europe is starting to experiment.
Maybe your idea of a family centered area is one of spread out houses with private garages and cars but we can also create that by doing away with vehicles and removing them from our environment.
In Paris, vehicles were banned for a period of time because the of smog content in the city. If citizens did not comply to this order they were to be fined and your vehicle could be impounded. The increase use of motorized vehicles by mass pollutes cities and makes it unsafe to breath the air. Hybrids, plug in cars, and vehicles transporting 3 or more people were excused from this sudden crack-down on automobile use, but after a few days the French government allowed it to return to the normal use of all vehicles.
In Bogota, Columbia, no-car days are being experimented with. The citizens have been every enthusiatic in participating and overall it has been a huge opportunity for people to get out and enjoy the city on foot, on bikes, or in buses or taxis. Other cities surrounding Bogota joined in the event this year and also enforced fines upon anyone who did not comply to the rule. Business has boom and overall stress and worry is lowered because of the fresh start people get with biking places instead of driving. | 1 |
You should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because you would be helping animals get to other countries, you would be able to visit exciting places and countries and you woudn't have to be bored on the ship because you can do fun activities. I have to arn you, you might face dangerous situations.
If you join the Seagoing Cowboys program you would be helping animals that weres shipped overseas. You would be helping animals such as horses, young cows and mules. You would be feeding the animals, giving them water clean their stalls and you would have to pull bales of hay and bags of oats to the lower holds of the ship. If you join the program you would also be able to visit exciting places and countries, I got to visit the Acropolis in Greece, an excavated castle in Crete and I marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China. Some places I visited were Europe, China, Greece, Italy and Crete. One of the most exciting things I have ever done was when I took a gondola ride in Venice, Itlay. Another reason why you should join is because, when you're on the ship you get to do activities such as playing baseball, volleyball, Table-tennis, fencing, boxing, and if you want you can read.
I have to warn you, you could get hurt because when I was aboard on the ship one day, I slid down a slippery laddery on my backside, my heart raced as I shot feet towards an openingon the side of the ship. Luckilly a small strip of metal along the edge of the ship stopped me from sliding and keept me from flying aboard into the Atlantic Ocean. I was happy to be alive, but I couldn't work for a couple of days because I had cracked ribs. Even though you might face some dangerous situations when you join this program you still get to, help animals, visit exciting places and countries and do fun activities while you are on the ship. Please join the Seagoing Cowboys program, you would be doing a good thing and your family and friends would be proud that you are helping animals and the community. | 3 |
In this article it talks about how ''Driveless Cars Are Coming'' to the world soon.
They have been in the world since 2009 but we have never seen them on the road yet because we live in Indiana.
California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia have limited self-driving cars.
Manufacturers believe that in the future there will be more of these types of cars and they will help the community significantly.
In the article it sais that googles Toyota Prius are assisted with ''position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearveiw mirror, four automative radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor.''
They fully loaded the car to be very protected at all times but its not like they cant break or just not work.
The technology coul go out and something could happen to the people in the inside of the car causing severe injuries or even perhaps death.
In the article it also sais ''The most important bit of technology in this system in this system is the spinning sensor on the roof.
Dubbed LIDAR, it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings.
The combination of all this input is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skil of a human at the wheel.''
It sounds very secure and safe but at the same time anything can happen and we dont know how much the repair could be if something like this equipment broke down and could funtion properly.
The driverless car in my opinion should just stay away from the roads because there could be a huge amount of disaster if one of the operating systems goes wrong and it coould put us humans at risk of being hurt.
In 2013 they said that they put a ''Traffic Jam Assistant'' on a 2013 BMW.
It can drive its self with the help sometimes of a human touch if in any trouble.
Manufactures sais that they will have a camera in a car and will watch the person as the person watches the road. Manufactures are also bring a system to where if the human needs to drive then they can turn off the system and they can start to drive without it.
I agree with this part because if the car is driving and he human is faling asleep then the cars with cameras will notify them by vibrating the seats and waking the person up.
The thing i disagree with is the car driving by itself because if that does evolve to regular society, then I think we will have something else to deal with.
Have saying this in 2016 it sais that ''Tesla is releasing a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time.
Mercedes Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can truly drive themselves by 2020.''
What I think is that it will be far past in the future to where we finally see these cars on the road driving themselves and all we can do is wait till it happenes and see what will happen. | 2 |
the facial action coding system that enables computer to identify human emotion. i think its a good idea because you can tell if someone is upset. we should intall this technology because see can see if any of your sudents understand the lessionn or the homework that you give them.
its six basic emotions happiness,surpise,anger,disgust fear,and sadness- and than associted each with characteristic moveements of the facial muscles like raies your eyebrows when your are surpised your obicularis oris ariund the mouth tigtens your lip to show your anger you can prbably tell how a friend is feeing base on ther face. most people would have trouble know for face expressing.
in the mona lisa demonsttration is really inteded to bring a smile to your face while the computercsn do so much better. the computer can show your mood of you at the time say if you were lokking at something like a video and you like some eles would pop up on the computer and bring another one if you were to studied human anatomy would help them paint facial muscle precisely enough to convery specific emotions. is all about those muscular action units in the face. emotion moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions but also may even help produce them | 1 |
In Science Fiction movies you may have heard or seen driverless cars. Have you ever thought what it would be like to own a driverless car? Well in a few years that may be possible.
Many companies like Google, General Motors, and BMW have tried to make driverless cars. While many cars have been successful, none have been completely driverless. In some cases like work zones and where accidents are, a human driver must take control of the car in order to bypass the scene.
I think that driverless cars would be cool, but there is some danger to yourself and others without a person being in control. First, if the car were to switch to where a human takes control and the person was not paying attention then there would most likely be an accident. Second, if you were to learn how to use a driverless car you would have to learn how to drive first without a driverless car in case you have to take control of the car. Third, technology isn't perfect, there might be some isues with the first models of driverless cars and overtime the driverless cars will be fixed so that there will not be as many accidents because of a malfunction. Lastly, if you wanted to go somewhere you would have to program the car or use a GPS.
If there were driverless cars there would most likely be less car accidents in the future. Many accidents are caused by people driving faster or slower than the posted speed, drunk drivers, and having no experience by driving a car. If you were to elminate driving then there would be less car crashes.
In conclusion I believe that driverless cars would be a benfit to society by preventing most car crashes. However even if there are driverless cars the person controlling the driverless car needs to pay attention just like if they were driving the car. In the future, are you going to drive or let the car drive for you? | 2 |
The way technology has changed through out the years amazes many. However, a car that can do the jobs of a human? Now that is just terrifying. The development of driverless cars enforces dependence, not safe, and is not fully developed to be driving without a human behind the wheel.
Nowadays, people are already frustrated by having to drive the car themselves but if you throw in a driverless car in to the mix? That is not safe for the people inside and/or outside the car. As the passage states, "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." Also, what if the car is in "driverless mode" and begins to glitch, what is going to happen then? Or, the aftermath of a car accident and someone gets hurt, who is to blame then?
Usually, when people in their adolescence get a car they are thrilled because it is their responsibility to drive that car safely and to be independent. However, with buying a driverless car, all the independence and responsibilty just flies away. In the future, what is going to happen when people feel that way since the car is driving, they do not have to do anything behind the wheel. Or, if someone falls asleep and does not hear, see, or feel the warnings and signals from the car to take control, For example, when the driver's seat starts to vibrate or the flashing lights on the windshield.
A car that is driverless is quite impressive, but then what is the point of having a human behind the wheel. People who are for the development of these types of cars do not get the whole idea behind the problem with these cars. The passage states, "-the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." Big whoop, throughout the years a human's attention spand has sky rocketed downwards. So, even if there was a warning, there would not be a big chance if the driver even saw or heard it.
In conclusion, the development of driverless cars enforces independece, not safe, and is not fully developed to be driving without a human behind the wheel. If we stop this development now, we can stop the risks of what is yet to come in the future on the road. | 3 |
I think that we should get rid of the Electoral College. In "Does the Electoral College work?" and Sources 1-3 by the office of the Federal Register, Bradford Plumer, and Richard Posner. I think it is best if we get rid if the electoral college and the president gets elected by the populer vote.
I would be better if we got rid of the electoral college. In source two it said " Under the elctoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president". Us voting for other people so that they can vite for the president feels as if we arnt even voting for the president at all. The winner take all system also so that whoever gets the mosts votes in that state gets all the electoral college votes. The person you voted for would not matter because what if the other person you did not vote for gets all electoral votes, then your vote did nothing to help on the person you voted for.
Electoral college was used because people who made it thought that it was a bad idea if they just let the people vote.
They thought we were njot qualified to elect a president so they made the electoral college so that they make a loop whole so they can vote. | 1 |
I do not see a place for self-driving cars in our time, but may see a place for them in the future. Although there are many advantages to these Google self driving cars there are also some things that take away from it's self- driving feature. Google may have found a new mode of transportation, but for the here and now I believe taxi's are for here to stay.
If these are self driving cars why must the driver or rider still be fully aware of the surrounding objects and traffic? If they had to state this why should this be allowed on the streets at all. This is a great idea and it's claims of helping our enviroment by using half the fuel the taxi's use would be a huge technological impact on our entire species' carbon footprint on our planet. But also what Google should deam the most important features of this product is it's saftey to passengers and to the vehicles surrounding it.
Although I do agree with amny this is a great idea and could take over the taxi cab industry in total, I feel this may be for the years down the road. Google shoudl wait ten to fifteen years in order to perfect the tehnology in order to get this self driving car on the roads. But until then I feel it is still time for the classic yellow taxi's to continue being driven by a human behind the wheel in our cities. | 1 |
Driverless Cars are Coming is a story about cars that don't really require a human driver. It talks about the history of driverless cars and how far they have come. It also gives some examples of some driverless cars. However, in the story it describes how these driverless cars have some positive and negative aspects. I believe that these cars have positive aspects and should be developed more because they are able to mimic the same skill of a human at the wheel, the drivers will be more alert, and they have a lot of safety functions.
To begin with, I am for the development for the driverless cars because they are able to mimic the same skill of a human at the wheel. For example, in the story it says, "Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial notion sensor. The most important bit of technology in this system is the spinning sensor on the roof. Dubbed LIDAR, it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings. The combination of all this input is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel."
In addition, the next reason I am for the development of driverless car is because the drivers will be more alert. For example, in the story it says, "GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object." The story also says, " The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over." Finally, one last example from the story is when it says, "Manufacturers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver."
Finally, the last reason I am for the development of driverless cars is because they have a lot of safety functions. For example, in the story it says, "Some manufacturers hope to do that by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over---something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern." Also, another example the story says is, " The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone."
In conclusion, I am for the development of driverless cars because they are able to mimic the same skill of a human at the wheel, the drivers will be more alert, and they have a lot of safety functions. | 2 |
Electoral college unfair, outdated, and irrational. There are quirks and many disputes on outcome of votes, it is perfered by 60 percent of voters that there should be a direct election but the the big thing is that it needs to be placed there.
Its stated that their are many reasons to retain the Electoral College despite those reasons, Electoral College is there for ceranity of outcome. some say that the electoral college votes are not counted and that there is no need for it, but direct vote can lead to a president who has no real will to the state.
The electoral college consists of 538 electors with only 270 votes requiered to elect there is no need to worry about a tie. With the Electorial College still up and running there are no reasons for voting to fall apart each state is entitled allotment of electors this equals to the members in the Congressional delegation there is one each for the House of Representatives plus two for your senator.
For example the Electoral College is there to make sure that there is always a vote due to the fact that only one half of the eligible voters in florida actually votede in 2012. The people placed in the Electoral college are people who want to express a politaical preference so that there isnt a probblem of a single vote deciding the electon and no ties for another realecting,so its better off.
Another great example is the Electoral College is the best way to go is that Each canidate in your state has its own group of electors and each state has a law that varys on how electors are selected with there own responsability leaving it fully cappable of its duties to properly elect a president by populer vote with the use of fully qualified citizens. So Electoral college irrational or rational qualified and equiped keeping the despised method un voted. | 1 |
In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus " the author accurately shows
and supports his idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers that come with it through the supporting details and facts he uses throughout the article .The author gets his point across and supports his main idea well.
For example , in the text when the author is explaining why astronomers are so fascinated by Venus in paragraph 4 the author states "astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth like planet in our solar system," this represnts how despite how dangerous it is to visit Venus it's worth it becasue they can study and examine a planet that has a lot of similarites to Earth to hopefully see if there is life on that planet and if anything happens to Earth we can examine Venus to find anwsers / possibly a new planet.
Secondly, another piece of text that is used is when the author is listing all the dangers that exsist in visting Venus in paragraph 3 "a thick atmosphere of 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus ... on the planets surface temperatures average over 800 degrees .. pressure is 90 times what we experience here ,"
the author includes all the negatives to better understand why he still belives that despite all those negatives and dangers it still seems worth it to visit Venus because to the author the study of exploring Venus weighs out the dangers and what could go wrong.
Lastly, another piece of text that the author uses when supporting his main idea is that NASA is working on projects that will withstand such conditions and dangers for example in paragraph 7 the author states "some simplfied electronics made of silicon carbide have beem tested in a chamber and have lasted 3 weeks in such conditions " the author includes this to show that astronomers are well aware of the dangers but despite that they are coming up with new ideas and things to be able to go to Venus to explore but at the same time be safe because despite everything the study is worth it.
In conclusion , the authors supports his idea that i'ts worth it to explore Venus despite the dangerous conditions through his details in the article such as inlcuding the dangers , what is being made to not face thoes dangers and the positives of how studying Venus could benifit us.The author trys to accuately show and support his main idea through various details and supporting evidence. | 3 |
The Facial Action Coding System is a new technology that enables computers to identify human emotions. Using it for students in the classroom would be valuable. It'd be valuable because it would benefit students and recognizing others' emotions, benefit the students' feelings, and it'd help the way they're educated.
The way the Facial Action Coding System would benefit students' is recognizing their emotions and facial expressions. It'd help the way they learn and what content is good in front of them. With certain material, all students interpret it in their own way. It would benefit how they feel about what is in front of them and what they're learning.
FACS would help others recognize emotions is because after using it and watching others, one would be educated on the technology and the way it works with humans. In the article it says that the system has up to 44 major face muscles working just like human muscles. One would learn how the new technology works after using it and it would improve how they read others themselves. " 'The facial expressions for each emotion are universal,' observes Dr. Huang, 'even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression.' (like not smiling as broadly)." WIth that being said from the article, it shows that basically all the same muscles are used to one general emotion and one could adapt that to their mind and be more educated about it.
Also, FACS would benefit students feeling stronger. D'Alto talks about drama coach, Constantin Stanislavsky and how he has his actors "carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage. Empathy(feeling someone else's emotional state) may happen because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial expressions." So after using the technology and practicing so much of feeling unknowingly, students would learn how to be emotionally healthy and how to balance their feelings.
FACS would benefit the students' and the way they learn by practicing keeping them alert during their lessons and schoolwork online. After the right content being provided due to their feelings and emotions, it would become natural for them to stay focused. In the article, D'Alto explains how one's feeling will trigger what is in the screen. He says, " 'A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,' Dr. Huang predicts. 'Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Students would be provided the right material as they go about the lesson.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding system would be very beneficial to student in a various amount of ways. The FACS would benefit students with recognizing emotions, benefit their feelings, and the students' education. FACS will better students and school systems. | 3 |
When someone hears the words "driverless cars", they get excited at the thought of something so futuristic at one time that it seems like something out of a science fiction novel. However, now that dream is becoming a reality. Large companies such as Google or BMW are advancing in this highly experimental field, and Google has been since as early as 2009. But is letting the machine take over most of the time really the best option? Could it lead to even more problems than it hopes to fix? These questions have yet to be answered and need to be.
In 2013, BMW began developing a project they dubbed the "Traffic Jam Assistant", allowing a car to handle all possible functions up to the speed of 25 mph. But even though the car drove itself, the driver still had to remain alert and keep both hands on the wheel where sensors were located. And in such situations as work zones or accidents, the driver had to take over. Moments like these should always be handled by the driver, because the only thing a vehicle needs is one single driver. If a pedestrian ever makes the mistake of crossing too late on a crosswalk in the middle of the street, the car is not going to be ablle to know if it is coming or not or whether the car can steer clear of causing an accident because of human error.
There is also the consideration of laws. In our current era, whoever hits someone initially in a traffic collision, is the one to blame, and the one who helps pay off the other driver's bill. Human error is a natural thing, and we all make mistakes, but if there is ever an accident in which an autonomous car is made and is involved in an accident, who is responsible in the end? Is it the driver, or is it the car which is supposed to be incapable of making mistakes? Allowing a car to be responsible for one person's life is not the best decision, and should be thought out more accordingly, than just seeing it as a fun toy because our laziness is growing so much, that we can't even drive for ourselves.
Then there is the cost, both on our wealth and our experience. If we allow cars to drive us around and take us anywhere we like, what will happen when it's our turn to drive. We will be less alert, paying attention to our surroundings instead of focusing on the road. Some may argue that cars come with warning signals that the driver must take control soon, but will they have enough time to completely survey the area and assess the situation? Or will the car be able to warn them in time? The answer is most likely to be answered, but is still a dangerous situation for a new driver. In 20 years these cars may be a new one of society's norms, and everyone might own a car that drives on its own. But before we can reach that day, we have to decide if we're willing to pay large amounts of dollars for a car that takes away all feeling of something belonging to us and seeming to be in our control. The "Cars of the Future" will cost extraneous amounts of dollars, just for the ability for us to drive only some of the time, and not all of it.
Some people may argue that there are beneficial sides to an autonomous car, and of course there are. These cars would cut down our costs on gas, they could even be safer than some humans driving cars, and they could all be traced around on a track designed just for the cars. But it all comes back down to cost. The thought of replacing all roads with "Smart Roads" is not only seemingly impossible, but timewise it would take a lifetime. If every single road was taken apart and rebuilt all over America, the world even, it would take at least 10 years, and the cost would be enormous. And these cars are safe, but if that situation ever hits, no one is going to want their death or disability caused by a car driving on its own because of human error, yet again.
The concept is definitely real, and they have continued to being developed. The only thing to see now is if they can pay the price, develop more solutions than problems, and see if laws can be passed in their favor. It will take years, or maybe even a decade before we see who will be driving behind the wheel in the end, the human, or the car itself. | 4 |
It was 1945, World War II was over in Europe, and many countries were left in ruins. To help these countries recover their food supplies, animals and more, 44 nations joined together to form the UNRRA. UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped over seas. You should join the Seagoing Cowboys program for many reasons.
One reason to join is that the Seagoing Cowboys can help you learn responsibility. As mentioned in paragragh six it states, the animals had to be fed two to three times a day. Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship. Stalls had to be cleaned. This shows that it takes responsibility because you have to make sure you feed and clean the animal's pens regularly so they won't get sick or die.
The second reason you should join the Seaging Cowboys is because it will let you have an opportunity that you might have never gotten. As mentioned in paragraph five it states, "Besides helping people, Luke had the side benefit of seeing Greece and China." This shows that you can see and do things you might have never done before.
As some claim, the trip is very long and dangerous. Yes, this may be true, however table-tennis tournaments fencing, boxing, rading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time.
Joining the Seagoing Cowboys is a once in a life time opportunity. Along with getting to see and do things you might not have ever done to learing responsibilities there are many benefits to the Seagoing Cowboys. Join the Sea going cowboys today! | 2 |
Have you ever thought of going overseas to a different country? Well my name is Luke and I always wanted to go overseas for my entire life. When I wasm 17 years old my friend Don invited me to go to Europe on a cattle boat. Well of course I couldn't say no jto that because I thought it was a once in a lifetime opportunity.
You should fully consider joining the Seagoing Cowboys program. If you do, you can see so many new thing and experience many things you have always wanted to experience. While I was on my first trip when Don invited I almost died but only because it was a very rainy night. That doesn't mean you have a high chance that you can die, it just means you have to very very careful when it is a rainy night. It was 1945 World War II ended, and many countries were in ruins. To help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more, 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration). UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. So then that is when Don and I signed up.
I turned 18 before arriving Greece, which meant I could be drafted into the military. When my draft board learned that I was on a cattle-boat trip, they told me to just keep doing that for my service. I think the cattle boat trips are unbelievable for a small-town boy. Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing Acropolis in Greece was special. The next special thing I got to do was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water.
In my opinion you should definetly consider joining the Seagoing Cowboys program. Next if you do end up joining it then you will have the best time or experience your whole entire life. The best part about it was if you don't want to go into the army and you turn 18 while you are in the middle of your trip you don't have to join the Seagoing Cowboys Program. | 1 |
The Face in the picture was not created by aliens but just a natural landform. Tons of people believe it was created by aliens. In some ways I guess it could look like it was created by them. But in the end it was just a natural landform. A great deal of scientists strongly believe that it was not an alien.
An enormous head nearly two miles end to end seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa when they saw the photo. But common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. Even though few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact, capturing Cydonia in pictures became a priority for NASA when Mars Global Surveyor arrived at the Red Planet. Oodles of people started paying more attention to this story once it got out there.
Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all. What the picture really shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa, which are landforms common around the American West. There are so many facts and details to show it actually was just a face and not aliens. My conclusion is that I believe it was just a natural landform rather then aliens. | 1 |
There are many limiting car usage, through out the world, many are in the suburb of germany. some are also in Bogota. And many more countrys like the United states.
In the first passage, it has some car limiting usage. the country that it resigns in the suburbs of germany. For an example " automobiles are linchpin of the suburbs where middle-class families from Chicago to Shanghai tend to make thier homes." "Experments said that there is a drastically reduce greenhouse gas emision from the tailpipes. It also states that the passager cat are responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. And up to 50% in some car-intensive areas in the united states." ( Rosenthal, paragraph 5) So thats a limiting car usage. Because the greenhouse percentage is going up in many countries mainly Europe and the United States.
Thats just not it, The united states has been the worlds prime car cultures. "Its also the birthplace of the model T; the home of Detroit; the place where Wilsom Pickett immortalized "Mustanf Sally"" " Demographic shifts in the driving population suggest that the tend may accelerate. There has been a large drop in percentage of 16-to 39 years olds getting a license, while older people are likely to retain thier licenses as they age" Mr. Sivaks research has found. (paragraph 39) In New York , there is a "proliferation of car-sharing programs acroos the nation" (paragraph 37) there are many car limiting advantages like is stated above car-sharing that was devolped in New York and now travling all over the United States. There are many elder people reatinging their license. And less younger people getting thier licenses.
In the end, there are many advantages, going through the United States in to Europe. Those are some of the advantages of limiting car usage. | 2 |
Seagoing Cowbuys are very helpful. There are many reasons you should join. You have some extra time for site seeing. You also help others and become more aware about the world and the needs of the people. Another reason you should join is you have fun on deck. Segoing Cowboys are very aware and caring of others.
Do you ever think about having a job you love while experincing adventures and visit many unique places? A Segoing Cowboy is the job to sign up for. You have a lot of special moments and get to visit many places all different from each other in some type of way. I know this because"Besides helping people, I had the side benift of seeing europe and china. But seeing the acropolis in Greece was special,"Evdience shows he also said"So was taking a gondola ride in venice, Italy,a city with streets of water." This job is an amazing job to experience.
Another reason you should join is you get the chance to help others in need and it changes your mindest causing you to be very grateful for the things you have. The chance of helping others is very important. This is more than an adventure it's a learinig experince I know this because the text states"I'm grateful for this opportunity. It also say's"It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs."If you do this job this awareness sticks with you making you a more humble and grateful person. It has changed peoples mindest on things.
The last reason you should join Is the fun you have on board the sense of maturitity you have increases. Jobs aren't meant to be boring with this job you won't get bored there are a lot of activities you can do that are fun. I know this because the text say's "Luke also found the time to have fun on board. It also says"The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table tennis tournaments ,fencing ,boxing ,reading, whittiling , and games also helped pass the time."
To conclude from all this you should know by now you have to join the Seagoing Cowboys. This opens your perspective on things when you see needy people and the sense of urge you just got to help them. This is a great job that allows you to have fun. It helps your mindest and how grateful you become. Lastly you should join because you have time to experince things others don't like site seeing. | 3 |
Venus is the second closest to the sun. this means the temperature there is way higher than earths. This also means that the atmospheric pressure on venus is also way higher than earths
Venus is second away from the sun this means its has a very great temperature. Venuses average temperature is about 800 degrees. Venuses atmospheric pressure is about 90 times what earths is. No space ship has lasted on venus for more then a couple hours. Scientist still believe that at one point long ago that venus could of been the most earth like planet in the solar system.
Scientist believe that to study this if they stayed about 30 miles above the surface of venus that they would be able to study venus. The temperature would still be toasty at 170 degrees but the atmospheric pressure would be equaivalent to that of sea level on earth. Solar power would be plentiful on venus and the radiation wouldnt exceed that of earths.
Science shows that maybe right now venus isnt the most hospitable plant in our solar system but maybe at one time is was. | 0 |
Dear State Senator
The Electoral College is very unfair to voters. Voters can't always control who there electors vote for. It's not fair to just have like 20 representatives voting for a whole entire state of like 40 million people. What's the point in voting for a president if your not really voting for a president when your actually voting for candidate electors who will in turn elect the president.
I believe the process should be thrown out all together. The Electoral College is an unfair, outdated, and an irrational process. The winner take all system defines the word unfair. It awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate. Then the governor prepares a "Certificate of Ascertainment"which declares the winning presidential candidate who will represent your state. Where in that is the citizen's say? Exactly we barely have any "say" in anything.
I understand the Electoral College process has been in place for a very long time but its time to just get rid of it. Im quite sure citizens of america don't like feeling like they have no say what so ever. Voters also get confused about the electors and often vote for the wrong candidate. The best arguments in favor of the Electoral College are mostly assertions without much basis in reality and the arguments agaisnt it are spurious at best.
The most worrying thing is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote which will cause for the election to be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president. Its not democratic in a modern sense and is very unfair. With so many problems being associated with the Electoral College it would it be easier to just get rid of it and do us all a favor. | 2 |
The author brings up many great ideas and facts about venus. In paragraph four the author says that venus and earth have a lot of the same physical features. The author brings up at one time venus could of had oceans. I think this is a false statement because the average tempature is 800 degrees. So I think all the water would evaporate over time. The author did bring up in pargraph four how venus had a lot of similar features like mountains,valleys and craters.
I dont think we should travel to venus my reasoning for that is in paragraph three the author states that the pressure is 90 times greater than earths and could crush metals. I dont belive we should travel to other planets because im afraid of what we may find. I defintly belive we should study planets in our solar system we need to be aware of whats around us and try to figure out if there are other life forms.
In conclussion I think we should futher our investigation on the planet Venus. We as a country should not try to go there if the atmosphere will crush a submarine I cant imagine how our human bodies would react. | 1 |
"Our travels on Earth should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation". Studying Venus is a worthy worth wild task despite the dangers that it involves. There are many positive things that may come out of exploring our dear neighbor Venus inlcluding how it might have once been just like Earth.
Venus was once just like earth researchers have found many Earth like evidence to support this claim. Venus may have been fillwed with oceans once just like how we have them here. This planet may have had various form of life whether it be the tiniest things. Today there is still much evidence that can give off it has Earth type atmosphere. Such as the rocky sediments, the valleys, and the mountains. This way if we were to pursuit Venus we could cope with what we already know on about our planet Earth and how we have similar structures. It would be a worthy idea also because they have volcanoes and earthquakes some things we on earth have as well. We would be able to do this and discover if Venus was just like Earth.
Venus can be a worthy pursuit because since it is not a far away planet we would be able to travel their with an advantage of it being close to Earth. Going to Venus would also be a the nearest option for a planetary visit as well. With not a single spacecraft touching Venus in 3 decades going back and replanning the visit to Venus would be a mega shock to others. Like as said in the paragraph Venus is around the same size and density of Earth so this would give our fellow space people a similarity of what Earth is like but in hotter and a bit more extreme troposphere.
With the improvement of technology we could have spacecrafts succefully land on Venus surface. Giving technology an area to expand as well this can also see what technology can do for us more in the future. NASA has been working on a electronic that could stay up till three weeks in the tempature of what Venus approxiametly is which is around eight-hundred degrees fahrenheit. This could give us the chance to send a spacecraft to Venus and see what we could find that relates to things here in Earth. So, yeah technology is a big part of this pursuit.
Wrapping it up the pursuit to Venus would be challenging but we could soon enough get there. The positive things and the excitement of what Venus may contain makes this something worthy of going and exploring what Venus has for us. There are some dangerous things about it such as the hot tempature but with the right technology I believe it is a worthy trip. | 3 |
There are many advantages today of limiting car usage. This accounts for car usage limits in Europe, United States, and many other places. Limiting car usage around the world isn't just good for society, but also for yourself. Limiting car usage helps to separate suburban life from over usage of autos. It's good for people to separate themselves from cars also because many people get stressed about their gas money, whether or not they will be late for something, and also because many people worry about their own driving, and may think they will injur somebody.
Reasons why limiting car usage has been discussed throughout many people and regions. Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States. There has been efforts in the past two decades to make cities more suitable for walking but it's basic percepts are being adopted around the world in attempts to make suburbs more compact and more accessible to public transportation. From the passage, David Goldberg, an official of Transportation for America, says, "All of our development since Wold War Two has been centered on the car, and that will have to change." Mr. Goldberg describes how everything pertaining to where places are built, how many roads built, and not enough sidewalks is because of the car being the center of everything, that people are not focusing on anything else.
Advantages of limiting car usage varies on different places. Some of these advantages include the ban of driving in Paris to help clear the air of the global city. Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France after five days of intensifying smug. In Bogota, Columbia the streets of this capital city, eerily devoid of traffic jams. Banning cars also cause less accidents around the world. Not using a car for one whole day limits stress on people and greatly lowers air pollution. Limiting the usage of cars in Bogota has also helped the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths, the most of any Latin American city.
Limiting car usage in many places even for one day has put a good effect on society, people, and the world. Limiting car usage in Germany suburbs opens the streets for tourists on trolly's or just people who need to be to work on a certain time who cannot afford cars. It also reduces the air pollution by very much. From the passage Heidrun Walter said, "When i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Opening the streets from cars allows isolation between suburban life and auto use. Greenhouse gas emissions will decrease by decline of car use which is good for the planet. Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals due to their high usage of diesal gas. Causing the decline of car usage will remove smog due to not as much diesal going into the air. In Bogota the Day Without Cars is held to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. The turnout was large, despite the gray clouds that dumped occasional rain showers on Bogota, Antanas Mockus, said, "The rain hasn't stopped people from participating." He also stated, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution.
In conclusion there's many ways to reduce air pollution. There's also many advantages to banning usage of cars. Not only are people stress free and feeling good, but air-pollution decreases and Greenhouse gas emissions stop. | 3 |
Many people carry out their daily life routine via car. Whether it is to drop their children off at school, or simply taking them to go to any sort of practice. Whichever the case, many find limiting car usage to be the answer to our problems.
One thing most people know is the amount of damage using a car can cause, especially to the enviorment. Air pollution has been a great facor into the problem as well as carbon emmisions. For example, in Europe passenger cars are responsible for about 12% of greenhouse gas emissions and up to 50%
in some car intensive areas across the areas in the United States. Congestion also plays into the problem. In France, there was an increase of smog in their cities, and disel runned cars were to blame. As an outcome, the cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to cage in car emissions. With the limitation of car usage comes the decrease of toxic air roaming into our atmosphere, and an increase of a healthier lively one.
Besides the enviormental effects car usage has had on us, there is also human effect. Many people around the world have participated in events in which they were to quit the car usage and were to find different methods of transportation, and the feedback was positive. In Vauban, Germany there is a resident of an upscale community whom had owned a car, but had decided to give it up. Heidrun Walkter, a mother of two, had once owned a car but now she walks the streets and is able to hear the swish of bicycles and the chatter of children. She says "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way."
The limit of car usage has also brought about more days of physical activity. In Bogota, Columbia, there were millions of Columbians who hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work during a car free day they had, in attempt to lower the smog in the air. In return, what the people got out of this day was both the decrease in smog, but also the decrease of stress. Not only did the day leave the capital city completely devoid of traffic jams but also brought many people closer with each other. As an example, a man riding a bicylcle with his wife around the city, and says to say it was beneficial for both the enviroment and themselves.
Overall, the limitation of car usage has drastically decreased the amount of air pollution, and smog around the world. It has brought about the sound of children playing and the sound of people riding their bicycles. Many of the countries around the world participate in events to lower the harmful outcomes of the car usage from Germany to Paris, to Columbia and the United States, but there are still efforts in which they are present. | 3 |
In the article "Driveless Car Are Coming", the idea of a driverless car is brought to the world. This article can make you think about how cool it would be to have a car drive itselfs with out the help of a human. Also how advanced it has come over the years. While the article states many pros to having a driverless car we see many cons of the idea as well. In this essay I will tell you the cons of a driverless vehicles, for example, you would have to stay alert and attentive to everything around you, and it could cost alot of money to keep te car in good working condition.
In the article we see that if you aren't alert and attentive it could cause alot of damage to you and your car. If you are in some type of "work zone" than you would have to be ready at a moments notice to take over the car. Some people might say that to help keep the driver alert the car could have types of sensor on to the car to vibrate or something of that nature to bring the drivers attention back to the road. I beileve that defeats the whole purpose of having a driverless car if you have to drive at certain points.
Having a car that is so advanced can need lots of mantinence, sooner or later that would begin to add up and will cost alot of money. The article gives lots of examples of what would be in the car, but not the expenses of the car and all the materials. One example in the paragraph 4 is when it talks about the "Dubber Lidar." This is a laser beam on the top of the roof spinning constantly giving "3-D updates". While that could be really cool, the cost of that part alone could be thousands of dollars. If that part were to be damaged then the car owner would have to pay for that part to be fixed. That could cost just as much that it cost to buy it or maybe even more. The car would need constant updates,it would have to stay on top of all the new laws and traffic regulations that are created on a daily. This also could cost money and can become time consuming. In a way it could be benieficial to the economy because it could bring in more jobs. But it wouldn't be benificial to the owner of the car who would have to pay all the money.
Overall, it is a bad idea to buy one of these cars. ou would have to stay alert and the cost of it would began to become overwhelming and ridiculous. | 3 |
Venus containes many mysteries to the human race, because of ourl lack of intel and capability to acces information. The rare and extreame conditions found in Venus are no were near those of Earth; meaning it doesn't have the capasity to sustain human life. The article "The Change of Exploring Venus" indicated these dangers, and the lack of equipt technology with the ability to servive in Venus' atmospher. Many scientist find studing Venus worthy, despite the dangers. The author does a pore good supporing this idea, becasue the main focus of the article was the negative side of studying Venus.
One of the article main points was the difficulty of human acces to Venus. "... no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." Demenstarating, the danger and almost none existing survival late of a human being. " The condidtions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth..." indicating the incopasity of human to rome Venus. These two quotes from the articel indicates the articles focus on the non survivable atmosper and conditions on Venus, this controdiction the idea of Venus being worth sudying.
The next point he articel cfocused on was the technology available and its capasity on Venus. "For example, some simplified elecronics... have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." Indicating, that techoology can not support Venus consitions for long, despite its advancemnts. "Modern computers are enormously powerful, fexible, and quick, but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions." Therefore, this demonstrates how Venus atmospher and condition is dangeres even to our most modern technology. Refuring to the incapability to substain the copasity to keep humans alive for long after reaching Venus atmospher.
Finally, the article never indicated why the study of Venus was important. The first four paragraphes focus on the the conditionds of Venus and what would be found in it. These paragraphes give no indication of how Venus affect the Eather or those living in it. most of what remains of the article focuses on the posible advancemnets and ideas or techological difficulities. These things also have no impact on the importance of studing Venus, rather creat another reason not to. These detail, though their purpose is to inflorme and inspire a desire to study Venus only creates a sence of uneasines and un-worthiness.
In conclution the articles main focus was on the opsticles being faced in order to safely study Venus. Leading to the lack of evidence or reasons why it is worth studying considering the dangers. | 3 |
Is the Facial Action coding system a good idea to put it in the student classroom? I think not,its not a good idea to mein 2 ways. One is because the kids might not want you to know how they feel. My second one is becuase what if a kid gets picked to be mad or sad and he gets into a fit and he gets super ticked off becuase he didn't want anyone to know. The last one is becuase that weird to be checking for the kids emotions. The first two are both similar and the third one is just plain obvious.
Yes it might work in classes like drama club, Happy day club or other clubs but other than that i dont think sobecuasei in just a regular classroom it would be weird as i say. I beleive it could also maybe work for sports but other than that i dont agree that we should have thoese emotion reader system in our classrooms. people might not want to get recognized as mad,sad,happy or even just plain or tired.
Another last reason why i dont beiieve it should be in the classrooms because just as i said in the other paragraph that peoplemight notlike it or might now want people to know how they feel becuase it might be personal. It is personal and its crossing the line. Soem people might get into a fit and that wont look pretty.
In conclution,i disagree that we should put the Facial Action Coding System in the classrooms because it wouldn't look good in the classrooms for students nor parents. | 1 |
To: Senator Gates
The Electoral College is a process which the founding fatehrs established as a compromise between election by a vote in congress and by popular vote. The Electoral College con sists of 538 electors. 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. This is a way of how the votes are calculated in the United States.
I want to change the way that this voting is held. It is not fair for the electors to elect the president. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, canidates dont spend time in states they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the swing states. It should be on the peoples votes since they are the ones being affected by the changes. Not by the Electoral College.
The winner-take-all system is not fair what so ever. If there are more votes foe whatever president in that state then the electors will go for that president. This is like bandwagoning for football teams. If they go to the national championship they will change to that team. This voting shopuld change to the peoples votes instead of this winner-take-all system. It is more fair and balanced.
Think of it this way in 2012 that more people voted for Mitt Romney but the electors didnt think so that is unfair. Right? The voting needs to be changed once and for all to a popular vote system instead of the Electoral College. This is the best way for the United States to deal with this madness. One solution and you are one step forward to a better Nation.
The Electoral College may have been in better use for the past but now it is the future and we need better ways for voting. We need to go back and use popular vote instead of Electoral College.
From: PROPER_NAME | 1 |
Driverless cars used to be only things of imagination.
Now, as technology advances, we are getting closer and closer to a driverless car that can possibly function just as good as one with a driver.
There has been a multitude of obstacles for developers of Google and other companies to work around, but the final product may be getting nearer.
Sensors, radar, and other modern technology are being used to effectiently improve past and current models of driverless cars.
Although the technology is progressively getting more advanced, I feel that nothing will be able to replace a human driver.
Throughout histroy inventors and engineers have always worked for an easier, better way to complete a task.
Driving is no exception.
Driver assistance devices have existed since the 1950s when General Motors created a car that could run on a specialized track.
That idea was proved to be out-of-reach due to the high cost of redisigning all roadways.
In the 1980s, sensors were installed into wheels and brakes to create antilock brakes.
This is an example of driver assistance technology, and many other things like this have been created since then.
Do these driver assistance technologies help?
Yes.
They put, in the hands of the driver, a car that is smarter and able to detect certain dangers.
These cars allow for a safer driver experience.
But sensors can only do so much.
The extent of their safety can only go so far.
The driver of a driverless car and the people around it are at a much higher risk than a traditional driver-operated car.
There are an innumeral amount of driving situations that have not even occurred yet.
New accidents are happening everyday and no two are exactly the same.
How will a driverless car be able to handle every situation?
They won't.
As the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" says, when driving a so-called driverless car, the driver is constantly on call.
With that information taken into account, no car is completely driverless.
All in all, I believe that driverless cars will never be safe enough for everyday use.
The technology is simply not there to account for every possible scenario.
Anyone in a driverless car must always be alert and ready to step in a react to a situation.
If that is so, how can a driverless car be considered safe?
No technology will be able to react as fast as the human mind.
I am sure that as time passes on, more and more driver assistance devices will be invented, and there will be countless claims that driveless cars are completely safe, but the evidence I see proves otherwise. | 2 |
Most people either own a car themselves or know someone who owns one either way most people own a car. The fact is though that the advantages of limiting car usages adds up to about a billion but today im here to present just a couple to you.
As Ms. Walter says in the article "'I'm much happier this way'" (3) and see she owned a car and she always felt tense but now without a car she can hear the sound of bicycles and "'...chatter of wandering children'"(3). Many people just like her either own cars because they don't know how to live without them or they don't own cars and they are less tense and can hear the wonderful sounds of mother nature. Just think about it; how often do you hear birds chirpping or kids playing at parks or even leaves rustling? if you were honest you would say almost never because its true all of the motorized vehicles that we have in this world drown all of the best sounds out. We simply don't hear them anymore; no instead we hear a train running by at tweleve in the morning or the screech of tires at six in the morning on the way to school or even worse we hear tons and tons of car horns going off all at once just because someone isn't moving at a red light. Seriously do we even know how horrible all of that is and guess what its all because the human population wants to be able to get places faster.
Most people are noticing this now but in the past no on noticed that our own way of trassportation was and is polluting the world. In Europe 12 percent of the greenhouse gas emmisions are caused by passenger cars. Also "...up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States"(5) are greenhouse polluted because of the cars. The human race can stop this "In this new approach, stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway"(6). See thats the thing we can change this and we can survive with out cars. There is no disadvantage of limiting car use because we can live without them. Infact there are only advantages; we can stop polluting the earth, we can have a safer world, and we can finally hear mother nature and concentrate on something better in our lives. The thing is that we dont even have to go without cars because we have created electrical cars that are rechargable; yes they are very expensive but if we just used those then they would be alot cheaper. By having a car we are polluting the earth and by not having one we aren't; not polluting the earth is a advantage of limiting car usage.
The fact is that the advantages of limiting car usage out weigh the disadvantages of limiting car usage which is why having a car can help or hinder us; just depends on you look at it. | 2 |
Dear state senator,
I think that Electoral College is a great and fast way to gather up votes to pick on our new president but i think that it has some big issues and the neagtives overcome the positives. One of the great things Electoral College brings that it is widely regarded as anarchronism with means that the votes wont be "overruled" it would acutally be the maguraty of the people voting on the president. If not it would be the elctors who elect the president, not the people. Also the party the people select is highly trusted and rarely betrayed. There have been a lot of cases in the past that go against Electoral College. One of the things that i am against the electoral college is that the voters dont actually vote on the presidental runner up they are actually voting on the state electors that who in turn elect the president. Also most worrying is in the case of a tie in the electrical vote. In that special case the elctection would actually have to go to the House of Representatives which means that state delegations vote on the president and The Senate would choose the vice-president. Basically the Electoral College is unfair to voters cause of the winner takes it all system in each state, candidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning so they only focus on the tight "swing" states. Its official in my opinion that the Electoral College is unfair , outdated , lack of democratic pedigree and irrational. It has lack of reasons in favor. I think we should just get over with this and go old school and get done with all this confusing matter and change to election to popular votes it took more of time but it was more accurate and caused less problems. Amazingly Bob Dole was right: Abolish the Electoral College! | 1 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author, Nick D'Alto tells the reader about new computer software that can identify huma n emotions. This new technology is called the Facial Action Coding System. D'Alto portrays this new science as very benificial to the world in many different fields.
One way this new technology can be used, is as a human instructor in the classroom. Dr. Huang states, " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." Detecting these features would then lead the system to modify the lesson to hep the students who are struggling in the class, or struggling to stay awake in class.
I disagree with D'Alto's claims of this new system being benificial to students. No computer software can replace a real human teacher. No computer software can detect human emotions as well as a human can. There is something about real human connection between teacher and student, that can't be replaced by technology. Also, with multiple students in every class room, the software would have to detect the emotions for every student in the class. Not every student will feel confused during the same time. Some students will be confused during one part of the lesson, and others at different times. This would lead to a flaw in the system, because the software wouldn't know when to change the lesson plan, because it's getting several different readings' from the students.'
In conclusion, no technology can replace a real human teacher. Not only would this new technology take away thousands of jobs across the country if put into classroom's, but students would lose the connection between themselves and their teacher. Sure, some teachers are better than others, but it is still a relationship between two people that a student gets to experience and mature in. Respecting your teacher as a student, will lead to respecting your boss when you get a job in the future. You can respect a person, but you can't respect a computer. This is still true even if the Facian Action Coding System could detect the emotion of "respect" one day. | 3 |
I strongly believe that we have found something on mars and that it is just a natural landform. Their are many ways people can take this matter but since I am a scientist at NASA I can tell you what really happened. People may or may not believe me but I know what happened and I hope that you can listen to what I have to say. Aliens in my opinion are not real and I strongly think that they only way that a face would be on Mars is by a rock formation that happened.
When we looked at the pictures that they found of the rock formation there we saw a head,nose,and a mouth but ther were also formed by shadows. Then came Mars Blobal Surveyor and helped out and got more pictures from the rock. They got pictures that were ten times sharper then the orginal pictures. After all they concluded that there was no alienen moument at all and that is was made out of rock.
The people thought that it was a alien moument and got frustrated and that we were wrong. Of course there had been things about it on tv shows and radio talked and maybe even in grocery stores. You might think that we wnated to hide from what we saw because it wasn't what we would have hoped for. The truth is that we didn't want to make up something that wasn't real because then everybody would believe that and then it would be also bad for NASA. NASA goes into outer space and we find stuff that we haven't known about and that interests us and makes us what to go out there more.
When people then make up things about hiding it they only think about what people around them that are saying. They don't go up to space and they don't see what we see in space. Even if there were life we would share that but lieing to people about life in Mars is not right. It's not fair for people to think that their is life just because we saw a face. We even had help from other people to help us. They helped us with the pictures and with those pictures we could also tell there wasn't life.
I concluede that what we have found is real and that there was only a rock foundation. We don't want people believeing that wrong thing and for NASA then that also would be bad because then we couldn't discover all new things that we found to everyone. I hope that I have convinced you why there wasn't an alien monument but just a rock formation from Mars. | 2 |
In this passage, it is made very clear that exploring Venus is very unsafe for humans. While it is stated in paragraph 2, Venus can be thought of as a twin to Earth and it has many similarities, there are also many differances that make it very difficult for humans to set foot on Venus. In paragraph 3, it states "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere." The atmosphere of our similar neighboring planet is just too toxic for a human to last long on the surface, let alone be able to call that planet their new home. Also in paragraph 3, it is stated that Venus's average temperature is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit which is impossible for earth living creatures to survive in. Also, the atmospheric pressure is so much greater than Earth's that the two conditions combined are too extreme for human life. Scientists may be able to find a way around all these issues, but it will take great amounts of time and effort.
Over time, all the issues involving the conditions of Venus may not matter. NASA, or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has been looking into the issues for years. NASA is attempting to travel to Venus, but not land on the planet to evaluate it. If NASA could get rock samples and test the atmosphere around Venus, they could possibly find ways to edit it or edit human immunities to make it more likely to support human life on Venus. This would take a while to achieve and there is potential that nothing scientists find could improve the liklihood of life on Venus.
Recently, NASA has found kinds of electronics that can survive on Venus, but don't last long. In order to find out more about the probability of eventually having life on that planet, someone needs to develop a form of technology that will last long enough to evaluate the living conditions that future humans would have to undergo. Finding the materials needed to make electronics last on Venus is very difficult. The temperatures are so extreme that most materials would just melt. Eventually, it was discovered that mechanical computers, a very old form of technology, could last on Venus. If all electronics could be composed of the things the mechanical computers are composed of, it is probable that electronics could last for long periods of time on Venus and be able to collect the data needed to investigate the idea of human life on Venus.
Thanks to the data the electronics could gather, eventually things could be altered on Venus, on Earth, or both in order to allow life on the planet. These changes could take generations to be completely effective. The great difference in climate between the two planets, for example, could take many years to become less of an issue.
Although, there are many things keeping people from living on Venus, people must first make enough advances to visit Venus. If people are not able to set foot on the planet for long enough to collect samples to test back on Earth, there would be no way of supporting life long enough for people to live there. If people can get to the point of being able to stand on Venus without issue, then the advances will pretty well be enough to support life on our neighboring planet. The first step, however, is also the largest one. Advancing that much could take a large period of time, but it is definitely possible. Life on Venus could be a lot closer than some may think. In all reality, the differerances may not be that great, especially compared to the differences between Earth and other neighboring planets. There is evidence of water on Venus in years past, so if water can be put back on Venus or if waterbodies can be found on Venus once again, life could be supported in the years approching.
Although there are many dangers of life on Venus, it is nothing that Earth living creatures couldn't handle. Besides the temperature and atmosphere, life could easily be supported. These are big obstacles to pass, but there is no doubt that it could be overcome. | 3 |
Luke's point of view in this story is telling people that whatever something or someone is giving you the chance to do, do it. You never know what could happen after. He was exicted to go on the Seagoing Cowboys program. Once he did go he already took nine trips. If he didn't like going back and forth he would have been part of the program. This is telling you that you would likely like the Seagoing Cowboys program after all. If Luke point of view can see it, you can see it.
The Seagoing Cowboys program is to help take care of the rhorses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. Luke wanted to help so he signed up, like you should. He's point of view tells you that he was happy he signed up and doesn't regret it so im pretty sure you wouldnt either. Let this be a way for you to see that you should sign up. | 1 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both positive and negative ideas of driverless cars. Some say that driverless cars will be the future to public transportation, but others think that dirverless cars should be illegal even to test on roads. The development of driverless cars should be illegal.
Google has had cars that could drive indepently but under very specific conditions. Google's driverless cars are not truely driverless. These cars still require a driver to navigate in and out of driveways and if there is complications in traffic such as contructions sites. The driver must stay alert at all time is complications are ahead of them.
For some smart cars there must be electrical cables sending signals to the car. But without the opition of smarter roads manufacturers how will the car sense what is ahead? The manufactors would have to install more motion sensors, which requires more money and time that people do not have. Humans are far better off to control the car, rather the car control them.
The driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe. Lawmakers know the right way to get the alert the drivers if something is happening ahead. Most traffic laws are written with the conclusion that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. For most states it has been illegal to even test ccomputer-driven cars.
Though some people believe that driverless cars should be legal to develop and drive.Google cofounder Sergey Brin envisions that the driverless cars will be the future of public transportation. The use of driverless cars can decrease the use of gasoline and can be less harmful to the community. If driverless cars become popular there will be less accidents. Yet the people would still have to navigate the cars into or out of driveways and through construction sites.
The author of this article presents the reader with a positive and a negative aspects of driverless cars. some people believe is a great idea to develop these cars, But technology always has a down fall to it, if someone is injured by the driverless car who is to blame. | 3 |
Twenty five years ago a face was discovered on mars. NASA said that it was a rock that resembles a face. The rock had the look of eyes, nose, and a head. This is something that NASA and us scientist have never seen before. NASA hasn't figured out if it really is a face or just a rock. The face theory's do not make any scince.
The face has become an icon as it has made apperences in movies, books, and magazines. Many scientist have thought that the cause of the face was because of aliens. Then NASA wanted to figure out what it was so they sent a Orbiter Camera. They found out that there was no alien resemblence at all. The face was very hard to find. As it states in the article "The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was wunter in April '98 a cloudy time of year" (page 8, Unmasking the Face on Mars).
"It's not easy to target Cydonia, says Garvin. "In fact it's hard work" (page 9, Garvin). The face was hard to detect and took a lot of work to figure out what it really is. Scientist are still doing research on the face shaped rock. They are even sending space crafts with camera's to take pictures of the face. So far, they are not having any luck on getting a picture that isn't blurry. The face has become one of the most interesting and confusing things in science and still hasn't been solved today. | 0 |
Venus is a place in space where astronauts may go to. Venus is has the hottest surface temperture of any planet on the solar system. Venus is the second close planet to the sun because Mercury is the first that is closest to the sun. Venus is sometimes called the Evening Star because it is one of the brightest points of lights in the night sky. Some people may think that that Venus is one of the most dangerous planet in the solar system.
On the planet surface tempertures can get up to 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what weve experience in our own planet. Venus has the hottest temperture of all the planets in our solar system. Venus is the hottest even when Mercury is closest to the sun. Some numerous factors have think that Venus is challenging planet for humans to study.
Humans have sent numerous spacecrafts to land on the cloud-draped world. Each spacecraft they sent was unmanned. Venus is the dangerous because no spacecraft they sent survived the landing for more than a few few hours. Im assuming this is why not a single spaceship touched down in Venus for more than three decades.
NASA is working on other approaches to study Venus. They are running test on the surface because of the chaos that has happened. They are looking back on old technology which was called the mechanical computers. This was evented in the 1800s. The studying that they are having I think that it shouldn't be anymore problems with spacecrafts or anything going to Venus. | 0 |
In this article, a new technology that can recognize and detect subtle human expressions and the emotions tied with them is beginning to become introduced to school districts. For the school's use, the FACS (Facial Action Coding System) will assist teachers and faculty members while dealing with students. Although I believe in the traditional teaching, I do understand how this new system may help students.
Since most feelings are conveyed in actions or facial expressions, the system will be able to detect whether or not the student understands the lesson they are being taught or needs reprimandment or additional assistance. The computer would also be capable of recognizing confusion or boredom and change up the lesson being taught. This technology could help students bring up their grades and truly help them understand what they are being taught.
With this, I think that the FAC system would be extremely helpful to both teacher and student.
This new technology could also help students learn about more STEM-related subjects. If a student wanted to learn more about the workings of the FAC system, the school should give out more oppurtunities related to STEM based classrooms. Not only will this help more students with future jobs and careers, it will also raise the school's popularity. If everything goes well, the school can recieve more money to spend on many classes that will assist students on their journey to adulthood.
Lastly, the FAC system can also help students learn more about social interactions between themselves and others. It can teach students how to be a good friend or helpful, or just how to socialize in general. Reading more in depth of another's face can help with careers, relationships, and everyday interactions. I believe that this would be good for the students to learn how to save face and to support each other.
In conclusion, the FACS can really aid a school and its students; And although a more traditional approach can be helpful, I believe that the new technology can really help guide students to adulthood and help teachers understand student's modern struggles. The new system will generally be a good thing all around if treated right by students. It won't happen right away, but if there's faith involved, I'm sure things will work out just fine. | 3 |
The Challenge of Exploring Venus
On this article the way he explore venus. Sometimes venus is called by ''Eving Star'' is one of the bightest points of light in the night sky. Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size. I think that author have to many ideas and how was he experience on Venus he new the planet surface temperature average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater then what we experience on our own planet.
For NASA this information is important to them and sand more people to vanus that they can keep getting information the value information to venus seems indisputable. On the paraghap 5 said that " solar power wound be plantiful and radiation wound not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions,but survivable for humans" this means that is danger that human keep going because venus don't have the same recurses that we have on the Earth howevr, peering from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate thye dense atmosphere, rendering standard froms of photography ineffective.
The conclution of this statementis that avery scientific explore what they waht to knoe ore sand people that they can get informayion form travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 0 |
Driverless cars sound like a splendid idea to the people, but the person who is making them is only getting more money. People will lose their money due to driverless cars. If a driverless car were to break down what would the person do? I am against driverless cars because people do not need to dependable on technology, the car crash rates will increase, and the tradition of driving independent will be lost.
Driverless cars are useless because people do not need to be dependable on technology. Technology is never 100% efficent. Cars do not need to be all technology where the driver just sits and lets a car drive for itself. Being dependable on a technology car is pointless and can easily have a lot of negative outcomes to having one. Driverless cars cannot be trusted. Trusting a driverless car to take another human being to a destination is dangerous and sketchy. A car should be driven by a human not technology.
Driverless cars are useless because the car crash rates will increase. In the article, it says "Further improvements in sensors and computer hardware and software to make driving safer are also leading to cars that can handle more and more driving tasks on their own." Sensors cannot protect weather situations from cars. Hydroplaning and sliding on ice can be a big factor for increase of car crash rates. In the article, it states that there are sensors that are alarmed to the human driver to take over the wheel. The driver could not hear the sensor or beep and easily get in a car crash. The driver can also fall asleep at the wheel when driving for a great distance considering the driver doesnt have to do anything. Car crashes will increase when driverless cars are brought out to the whole country.
Driverless cars are useless because the tradition of driving independant will be lost. Driver's are astounded when they first get to be independent with their license. Technology will ruin a tradition where a human trusts him or herself to get to a destination safely. Humans need to still experience driving on their own because if not they will never be independent. Humans will be more dependable on technology than their own selves. Being independent is a step into life everyone has to take. Driving independent means people can depend on themselves instead of others.
Driverless cars are an excuse for more money for manufacturers and a lesson in nurturing people more to be non-independent. People need to be independent so they can make it in the real world, if not then they will go through a ton of pain and suffering. To depend on something is like being fed a baby bottle when people are in their twenties. It's not right and not acceptable to any generation of that kind. Humans driving their own car, with their two eyes hands and feet will get the job done. Technology doesn't need more accidents of injuring people just because there was a malfuntion. Is our generation really going to depend on technology rather than themselves? | 3 |
Would Google make things easy by making a driverless car or would you stick with a normal passenger car? In my understanding I never knew google was trying to make a way to have driveless cars. Im thinking is it safe, will it help with transportation, and will it be alot of technology problems to control. Here is reson why that might be good to have driveless cars.
First,Google been working on this project for years. In the passege, it says," Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash."Google is trying to find companies that are willing to help or have some type of different thing that would make driveless cars better and smarter. In the text, General Motors created a concept car that could run on a special tets track. The track was embedded with an electrical cable that sent radio signals to a receiver on the front end of the cars.
Here are reason they might not be good to have. In paragrph 2, it says," Google cars aren't truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways, or dealing with complicated traffic issues". Are they reliable for navigation or accidents? Google thinks by using laser and updated sensors would help the car." The sensors weren't there, the computers weren't there, and the mapping wasn't there", said in paragraph 6.
Google is trying to help and make ways to have good, easy technology. "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers. Traffic laws are written with the assumpton that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer driven cars."
In conclusion, Google and other companies are trying to make things better for people in this world with new technology. Is it good for them to make this is type of product or new machineries? This story tells everything about it and if its right for people in communies safety. I think it might be good to have driverless cars. Do you think its good to have driverless cars? | 2 |
Since our inception, we humans have dedicated our lives to improving the lives of ourselves, others around us, and our children. Making life easier is the reason we work, and driverless cars are the next great innovation. Transportation will be revolutionized by this vital step in our path of conquering what we once thought was impossible. Through careful planning and development, Google's driverless cars will be a great leap in human progress.
Driverless cars will be safer than cars on the road today. So far, Google's cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash. This shows that accidents on the roads in the future will only decrease with the introduction of driverless cars. The article also states that "further improvements in sensors and computer hardware and software...make driving safer". Progress in technoloogy will make cars much better drivers than they are now. In fact, "information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes...allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone." Cars without humans drivers are a boon to those who care about safety on the road. With this amazing new technology, there is no reason to be against these overwhelmingly fantastic new features.
Google's driverless cars will also be a better experience for the driver. Driving is a mundane task; many people must commute for hours just to drive to and from work. Fortunately, manufacturers of driverless cars hope that there will be "in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays". Because these displays will also be able to be turned off instantly, these will not subtract from the safety of the car. These entertainment systems will be great for those who do not enjoy driving. The future of driving is one that will bring fun along with its plethora of safety features.
Google's new cars are something to be excited about because they bring safety and entertainment, which will benefit the lives of drivers around the world. | 3 |
I am writing about weather the technology use of the Facial Action Coding System is valuable or not, In the article I have read talks about the system in the computers they have,I thought how they used this device is pretty impressive like how they have done with the Mona Lisa portrait to identify how she really feels in the paiting.
The use of the Facial Action Coding System i dont't really think it's valuable in the classroom because i dont't thnk students want people to know if they are feeling any kind of depression,I mean the machine is amazing and all but i don't think students would want to hear about how they feel when they know because it'll just make them even more upset to hear it. The system could be useful anywhere else but in a classroom i don't think it should be used there unless there were students that weren't feeling any depression or anger maybe they would just want to try it out just for the fun of it.
But the technlogy is amazing,the article talks about how it can identify the facial muscles in the human face and the facial descriptions. Students may find this device to be quite interesting but it maybe some students that don't want to try this technology in their clasroom.
but in a more public place it would be more enjoyable to other people but in a school full of students i don't think it should be there. This scientific device should be somewehere else in public or if students wanted to try this device out if possible it could be on a feild trip perhaps. This is my essay on weather the Facial Action Coding System should be in a classroom. | 2 |
Mr. senator i think we should get rid of the electoral college and change to popular votefor the presidency. I know im not even old enough to vote yet and your probably thinking what is this kid talking about but i dont think it is right to vote for the president of the united states canidate and really not even vote for him. The electoral college should vote for us because believe it or not it isnt always the right desicion sometimes. They say people of age and an american citazen that we can vote then let them vote for who they want they shouldnt have to vote really for an elector people want to feel like there vote matters. The peoples votes should go right to the box and count the votes and see who wins. The electoral college is of no need for the election process we the people can vote for ourselfs please just let us. And i know it isnt really in the writing format the way they want it i just want you to know my oppinoin and i know your probably going to just skim right over this but please if you have the time just please read over this and take the time to understand were im coming from. | 0 |
Most kids find school very boring, espesically because you wake up early almost every day and go to this place where you use your brain all day. Using this new technology I think would help schools out a lot because it would help them understand what a student is thinking everyday at school. In the article it states "most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait" this system could see through your expressions and right to what you're thinking.
This new technology would be very intresting to have in a classroom just so the teachers could know what you are thinking emotionally. I can kind of see where this could be interupting your privacy but sometimes a teacher should know if your having a hard time or if your even bored in class. Knowing your getting bored in there class would make me as a teacher want to try something differently. Just by reading this article the machine sounds kind of cool it can read what your emotions are just by scanning your face, thats crazy.
Finally after my opinion this machine hopefully you agree with me on this because some schools might wanna try it out. Some teachers need to know what there students are thinking and you know 90 percent are probably going to be bored. So now it is up to the teachers to make it less boring because they know now that your not interested in what they're teaching. Therefore, I think schools need this technolgy in classrooms because it could benifit the teachers in many ways. | 2 |
I believe the use of the technology to read students emotional expression is pretty suffisticated, but i dont think it is nessisary. in the article, humans can assume other people's emotions because we have the same emotions as everyone else. Us humans know what it looks like to be happy, suprised, angery, disgusted, scared, and sad because we all go threw it. I know that there is obviously more that only 6 emotions, Some people feel jellousy and some may feel uncomfortable, others may feel paine and some will feel stress. That is already 4 more emotions that we can calculate and a computer can't. Another thing that humans can callculate is sound. We can here if a person is crying, We can detect that they might be sad. If someone is yelling, we can detect that they are mad, or got hurt, they might even be excited depending on the tone of the voice. Those are a coupple of reasons why i think we dont reqlly need the technology of reading emotional expressions, maybe that is just a little extra.
I dont think we need to "calculate" the way people feel threw a computer. I wouldnt want everyone knowing how i feel at all moments. I'd like my privatcy! If i want to talk about how i feel to someone that i trust then i would but i know that i definitally would not like anyone and everyone being able to know my emotion whenever theyd like. Just knowing that this could be possible... gives me chills. This should not be used on everyone, especally if they dont feel comfortable about it.
I understand that the machines can modify lessons like an effective human instructor or it can make computer-animated faces more expressive for video games or even video sergery which is pretty amazing. I do agree that the emotion analyzinig shouls be used for things like that. it helps out the way technolgy looks and aslo atrackts more people to it. "The facial expression for each emotion are universal"
that is something they have said while detecting the Mona Lisa.
Tecnologhy like a computer can obviously change the world wit5h people creating and discoveribg new idias to shar with everyone including the world.
I say we dont ditch the tecnology all together, but maybe just the parts that we can handle on our own like, detecting emotions on other people. Instead we can focus on comuincating. We can develope these skills to distinguish emotions instead of not gaining any knowledge and letting technology do all the work for us. Although this idea was fantastic and increadable, i dont think it is important for out needs. | 3 |
In this article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" i feel like the author has more negative than positive impact. The driveless car concept is good but the world is not ready for it. You will still have to have your hands on the wheel at all times, you will have to take control of the carwhen near a construction area or around an accident, and if the car fails then there is a chance that the blame could be on you.
First of all, these new "smart" driveless cars will only give you the ability to not have to think about when to stop and go. You will still have to have your hands on the wheel the whole time and also be alert. Wouldn't you rather just drive? Maybe these cars should actually be driveless but only used by people without the ability to drive with their hands.
My second reason on why this should not be an actual product in the future is because the passage even says that the car is "Designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." That just proves that the car is not ready to be put on the road. If the driver has to take over when the road has changed or a deer crosses the road ,How long will it take to switch this control over? It only takes a second for a child to dash into the street and not pay attention to oncoming traffic.
My third and final reason being that "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" We always hear court cases about drunk drivers and it it always their fault because they choose to get in the vehichle and do what they did, but what if we dont have control? How will a police officer know that we did not have the wheel at the time of the accident? Anyone could lie and say that their car was in complete control when the accident occured and could sue the car company.
In conclusion, the car is not ready to take on the road. You will have to keep your hand on the wheel at all times and stay alert, you will have to take the wheel anytime you are near a change in the road due to construction or an accident, and if the car fails then you will not be able to prove if it was you or this new "smart" car. | 2 |
The faces that appear on mars is probably made by aliens or made by natural land changes that is happening all around on mars and is creating the human like faces on mars. The natural landforms that mars is making peope think that its made by aliens but in reality its just an illusion that it happeing with the stars and everything within space. The mountains that are being formed my natural landforms are making faces in mars and people are saying that its aliens are probably telling us to go away and that we are being watched by alleins, But in reality its just formed by natural landform and its just an illusion happening. When they launched the pictures to go up on their JPL website probabaly thounsands and thounsands of consiracy theroists thought that it was made by aleins and not by natural landform changes when they told the whole world that it was natural landform changes. | 1 |
My thoughts on driverless cars are, i think they would be cool but they could also be dangerous.
Some things they could be nice for is it would be something new for everyone in the world. Some risks there are is if one would crash and you would have to pay for it not the company that made the car. Another thing is what if you turn it with the stearing weel and it doesnt work. Another risk is if you set the car up to go somewhere and it does something else. I think it would be really exspensive for a driveless car. Also i think there does need to be new laws if they start selling driveless cars because i feel like people would take advantage of it and maybe even use it in a negative way. I think if someone is in a driveless car going to a destination in they get in a crash and get injured it should be the companies fault because people dont know how to wrok them. | 1 |
Dear Mr. Senator,
I am writing you concerning a topic that is very important to our country, and the citizens that preside in it. The electoral college is the current method of determining who will be elected as the president of the United states of America. As you know, it does so by allowing our citizens to vote for electors that then choose who they want as president for us. Citizens will most often vote for an elector that has sworn to vote for either the democratic or republican party's candidates for president. However, I don't quite agree with this method of election. Through my research on this subject, I have discovered that not only do these citizens not have the access to vote directly for who they want to run their country, but also that many electors go back on their word and vote for another party's candidate. I believe the system should be changed and the president should be elected through popular vote, and I'm not alone, according to a Gallup poll taken in 2000, over 60% of the population agrees with me.
If the popular vote elects the president, every citizen will have their own choice on who they want as a president. In an electoral college, many people will merely have their votes casted aside becausetheir decisions or thoughts aren't the same as eveyone else in their state. Though some people say an electoral college is positive because it requires the candidateto have more than just regional appeal, but if people in that state like a specific candidate, even if they vote for an elector, the rest of their state may not like that candidate, and that person's vote will be cast away.
Also, the electoral college doesn't always follow the peoples' vote. For example, if there were to be a tie in the electoral college, the election would be given to the
House of Representatives. Since many people vote for a different party candidate than who they vote for, for the House of Representatives, they would not get their vote for president counted for anything, and the House may choose the president they don't want, without getting a say in any of it. Not to mention the 2000 election when Al
Gore got more votes overall, but Bush won the presidency due to the unfair, outdated system of the electoral college. The electoral college puts the decision of who will be the president into a couple hundred peoples' hands, instead of every American citizen.
Another reason for changing the method to popular vote is the fact that all of the electors count the same. Since each state only counts for one electoral vote, the one elector from Wyoming, representing 500,000 voters, will count for the same as the 55 electors from, California, who represent 35 million voters. That simply isn't fair because it's the same as saying the opinions of only 500,000 voters in Wyoming are as influencial and important as the entire 35 million voters' opinions from
California. The fact that not all American citizens, promised to be able to vote for who will lead their country and influence their everyday life, are able to do so is absurd.
Many people argue and say that just one vote won't make a difference, but there are 34,500,000 people in California alone that are being disregarded and not counted for anything more than the 500,000 in Wyoming.
Why should the people living in smaller states have more influence than those with larger populations? Why shouldn't those 34.5 million people in California be able to make their own decision and choose their own vote for the President? The entire population of every single state in the United States of America, that has the legal right to do so, should be able to vote, and to have their vote actually counted for something instead of just having their decision made for them by someone they've never even met. With the popular vote deciding who will be president, everyone will matter just the same, which is how it should be since we are all created equal, and we all should have the equal power to decide how our country will be governed and who will govern it, we should all be counted; not just the small percentage that is at the top. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Your fellow Floridian and American,
PROPER_NAME | 4 |
The suthor supports this idea of Venus is a wothy pursuit despite the dangers on planet Venus. Venus was once like Earth long ago and so scientists want know more about Venus. In the article it states "Astronomers are facinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earh like planet in our solar system." It also states "Venus still has some features that are analogous to thoses on earth." This shows that with features Venus used to have like rocky sediment, moutains , craters, oceans and signs of life could have been related to Earth. The author states that if researches and NASA are looking for ways to have more information about Venus. In the Article it states "Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long." In paragragh 7 it states " NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus."
In coclusion if Venus were to be like Earth then NASA and researchers would more into it and focus on other ways about sending spacecraft to know more about Venus. | 1 |
The topic of driverless cars is something that has been talked about and thought of since the 1950's, but the pieces have never been fully put together. Driverless cars are not a good idea because of the ability for faulty accuse in an accident, vehicles are not truly driverless, and the privacy of the driver.
Accidents happen all the time and it is usually fairly easy to see who is at fault in the situation. That completely changes with Driverless cars. If they were to be manufactured and put on the road so many new laws would have to be made and old laws would have to be changed in order to cover liability in an accident. Technology does not always work out how its supposed to, no matter how hard the manufacturers want it to, so if something were to happen to the cars technology and an accident occured who would be at fault - the driver or it's manufacturer?
Driverless cars are not real. In order for a car to be completely driverless there should not be a driver in the front seat. With "Driverless" cars an alert driver has to take over when pulling in or pulling out of driveways or dealing with traffic issues. That is the complete opposite of what drivers want. Drivers do not want to deal with the traffic issues or the navigation through accidents, that is what most people hate about driving. So why would they want those to be their only priorities when driving? They don't.
So much of everyones lives today are always being watched ; most people want to get as much privacy as they can in their day-to-day lives. By using cameras in order to watch if the driver is paying attention or not is safe, but also an invasion of privacy. It is understandable why manufactuers would want to have the cameras, safety reasons, but really in all actuality the cameras and sensors would become something drivers become accustomed to and they will completely ignore it all together.
Driverless cars may be a thing of the future but it all comes down to the buyers. If drivers don't want to worry about whether or not their gonna be at fault in a accident, if they actually have to drive, or if they want their personal lives invaded ; they most likely won't buy the car. | 3 |
In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger well by telling the reader what happens in Venus and giving details about the benifits of Venus. In paragraph 4 the author used words to make the reader take its head off of Venus being an dangerous planet and how scientists are discussing futher visits to its surface. The author states, "astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planer in our solar system. The author mentioned this in the article because he wanted to let readers know that even the people who go on Venus come back to be suprised about the things Venus has in the solar system. Also another reason why the author supports the idea that studyimng Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers is stating how NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. He states this because he wants us to know how focus these people are on Venus. He gives the people who are intrested in traveling planets details about what projects are being made, devices that are going to make the studies of Venus better and testing out Venus's surface seeing how long it was lasted. Finally, in the last paragraph, the author makes an influence about how audience shouldn't really worry about the dangers of Venus when traveling and look how good it could be. In the paragraph he said, " Our travels on Earthand beyond should not be limited by dangers an doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. In conclusion, the author uses great details about supporting the idea that studying Venus is outcomings of it that are benifical are good even with the dangers it presents. | 2 |
As in the article author says that Venus is like an evening star as one of the brightest pioint of light in the sky.As Venus is the second planed in our solar system and humans have proved also that it is very simple to see but when the earth is safe and though it is proved that it is closely to our earth.As the author said that humans who had gone by spacecraft werent that sucessful so the issue explains that thats why no spaceship cansurvive for long time.As VENUS is a challenigng planet for humans because the atmosphere is really bad like almost of 97 percent of carbon dioxide and we humans need greenery atmosphere and also good clmate then only we can survive,as high temperatures around 800 fahrenheit and many things too that can damage the deepest oceans to.The authors says that if VENUS is such an inhospitable planet then why are astronomers trying to figure it out,so then the scientists took out an idea that if we are sending humans then we have to study about venus .As then author gave an example that blimpy vehicles can hover over 30 miles then why not jet airplanes and also jet airplanes can still work in such bad atmoshpere too but the air pressure will be closest to the sea level of earth and also solar poower can work but can hel survive humans.So the scientists were looking up for technologies but they last till 3 weeks that in such conditions,so then scientists came up with the old technologies like the mechanical technology as first humans were shocket but then the scientists said that it may help us with calculations and all and also it does not require electricity to.So, from my side thanks for working so hard our scientists and astrnomers who gets good information from the space and then it is being spread all over the wolrd and how it works and everything.So the more you study the more your mind gets knowledged and thats what i read about venus.As special thanks to author also for sharing a great article. | 2 |
I'm a scientist at NASA and me and a group of scientist have been discussing the face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. While Nasa's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet snapping photos of possible lading sites of his sister ship Viking 2. He had spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. Viking 1 snapped a photo of it and sent it to the Jet Propulsion lab.
A few days later the NASA unveiled the image for all to see. Scientist discoverd that the face was formed by a shadow giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." Over the past years scientist believe it would attract more attention to Mars. It certainly did! The famous face on mars became a pop icon all over the world. It stared in many things like hollywood films, appered in books, magazines, radio talk shows as well.
After the big news that the face was a success scientist soon found out that other scientist believe it was an alien artiract. Jim Garvin explained that they felt this was important to taxpayers. He also photographed the face as soon as he could get a good shot at it.
On april 5, 1998 a group of
Mars Global Surveyor flew to mars and took ten more photos, That were sharper then what the Viking 1 took. Thousands of people have been waiting for the images to be posted on the website JPL. Soon after the photos were taken Mars global Surveyor have posted the images there wern't actually alien monument after all.
Many people wern't satisfied with the information that has came back to them including Garvin. Garvin stills believe that the faces that were found were yet to be alien artifacts. Garvin wants them to retake the pictures and do the research again. The Mars Global Surveyor does it agian and they retake the pictures more clearly. Scientist has come to an conclusion the the faces that were found on Mars is not yet found. | 0 |
Venus is a well-known or maybe to some well - heard of planet in our solar system. It's also known as the "Evening Star." NASA has a "particularly compelling idea", for sending humans to study Venus, as the reader may notice from the text. We are told that Venus may have some interesting things being discovered that may lead to new studies. It's dangerous and takes caution, but is it worth it?
As the reader can tell from the text, the author states mutliple reasonings for why it would be worth it for humans to do such studies on Venus. One of those might be for the fact that Venus is often reffered to as Earth's "twin." This is because Venus is the closest planet to Earth within being of terms in density and size. Plus, it's super close to Earth so it's one of Earth's closest "neighbors." It's found within the text also that Venus may have contained bodies of water such as Oceans and who knows, maybe lakes here and there. Due to the planets' surface of rocky sediment, it's possible that there were familiar features sich as valleys, mountains, and craters. It is said that maybe once there has been or maybe still is some form of life on our neighboring planet.
Another thing that ties into why it would be worth the study is that what if we could send humans to maybe live on Venus? It's definitely a work in progress due to temperatures going to around 170 degrees Fahrenheit.
Surviving human lives on Venus wouldn't be easy due to these conditions but that is why NASA is digging deeper into what can be done to make it suitable for human lives. Though one other thing shared with the reader is that the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth, which is a holdback but it's of course possible for adaptation in the right conditions which need to be discovered. If it's possible that other forms of life lived on Venus then why not humans too?
The third reason for studying Venus being worthy is that human curiosity can lead to an endorsement of new ideas. Of course that is why NASA is such a thing. The way our bodies work have been in discovery for years and years. Which leads to the idea that if we can figure out how and why our bodies function in certain conditons on Earth, how could and would our bodies function on a planet that is closest to features alike the sun.
These reasons explain to the reader why the author might believe that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers; because, who else is to make these discoveries and what if NASA were to find information that could help us learn a bit more about our own planet. Plus, more about the human life can be something that we learn more and more about. And lastly, who's to say that curoisity killed the cat? Well of course it's everyone; but, with new studies and leads we can figure out how curiosity saved the "cat" and taught that "cat" new things. | 3 |
The facial action coding system in a classrom is valuable. It is valuable because when a student is confused and doesn't understand what the teacher is teaching, the teacher or the computer will know immeadeality and they or it will help the student understand to further their education process. If a student is bored the teacher or the computer will regonize it and do something to make their learning expirence more remeberable, so when it is ime to take a test they wil remember it and they wouldn't fail.
For example, In paragraph 6, Dr. Huang states that "A classroom computer could regonize when a sudent is becoming confused or bored,( Dr. Huang predicts) then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." .
This example explains that the computers could help kids when they are confused or bored. This shows that facial action coding systems can be used in school to help kids with the learning and further their education for the future as well the present. | 1 |
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